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Natasha Shulte Ukraine 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement Children of the World Amateur "line, children of orphan Ukraine" project "LINE" end date - February 2011 year.These abandoned children live in one of the neglected cities of Ukraine (Belgorod-Dnestrovsk) in orphanage house. They present all the little ones of the world who suffer from the adults irresponsibility.I try to bring this information using such concept as "social art”, drawing special attention of the public. I believe that "social" art is able to transform a society. And children demanding help will be heard ! |
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Nick Ng Malaysia 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence Children of the World Amateur "Hope" The hope of a peasant child in one of the poor villages in Bali is clearly shown in her expressions. |
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Dianne Yudelson USA 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction Children of the World Amateur "Kids' Night Out" |
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David Lazar Australia Honorable Mention Children of the World Amateur "Tunnel of Light" Three playful and energetic novice monks in Sagaing, Myanmar, run towards me while I’m visiting a Buddhist temple. |
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David Mantel USA Honorable Mention Children of the World Amateur "Tribal Girl " Girl From Hill Tribes of Thailand |
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Athanasios Maloukos Greece Honorable Mention Children of the World Amateur "Surma boy, Ethiopia" The Surmas live in the most remote part of South Ethiopia, close to the Sudanese borders |
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Arup Haldar India Nominee Children of the World Amateur "daily duty" It is the daily duty of the little boy to sell sell the papers in every morning at the streets of Kolkata city, India .The boy belongs to very poor section of people and in spite of his early age he has to fight for his existance in this world. |
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Ashley R. Thompson USA Nominee Children of the World Amateur "Los Niños" Children on steps in the town of Las Peñas, Guayaquil, Ecuador. |
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Asis Sanyal India Nominee Children of the World Amateur "Stop! Child Abuse" Like many other countries, child abuse is prevalent in India in different ways. |
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Athanasios Maloukos Greece Nominee Children of the World Amateur "Initiation Ceremony" Taken in west Ivory Coast during a boys' initiation ceremony. November 2010 |
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Beatrix Jourdan Hungary Nominee Children of the World Amateur "kids" |
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Ben Ryan Australia Nominee Children of the World Amateur "My Island Home" Taken on Tivua Island, Fiji. This little girl is Lisa. Her father is the caretaker of the island and they are Tivua's only two permanent inhabitants. |
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Bruno Bravo Brazil Nominee Children of the World Amateur "Another Child of Brazil" Nikon D70 Digital - Pernambuco, Brazil - May 2007 |
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Bruno Bravo Brazil Nominee Children of the World Amateur "Son of Peace" Nikon D70 Digital - Pernambuco, Brazil - Nov 2007 |
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Buffy Redsecker USA Nominee Children of the World Amateur "Solomon Islands Smile" An isolated island in the Solomons welcome us with dances. This little guy was especially excited! |
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Chan Kwok Hung Hong Kong Nominee Children of the World Amateur "Fearless" This photo was taken in China, teacher speaks in bad weather, snowing nerver stop, the teenage LaMa have to close to elder classmates to keep warm, concentrated on the speech under the strong wind and snow. |
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Chris Minihane USA Nominee Children of the World Amateur "Magadi Maasai Girl" A girl wanders up in the middle of a remote area of Magadi, in Kenya. |
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Christopher Martin Canada Nominee Children of the World Amateur "Young Monks, Big Smiles" Novitiate monks living in a dormitory at a monastery crowd around a second floor window to share a laugh and a smile during a break from study, chores and meditations. |
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Claudio Allia Italy Nominee Children of the World Amateur "Remote Control #1" Mathare Valley Slum (Nairobi) A.D. 2010. |
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Claudio Allia Italy Nominee Children of the World Amateur "Remote Control #5" Mathare Valley Slum (Nairobi) A.D. 2010. |
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Dianne Yudelson USA Nominee Children of the World Amateur "Samoan Celebration" |
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Dianne Yudelson USA Nominee Children of the World Amateur "Meeting the Temptress" |
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Georges Yazbek USA Nominee Children of the World Amateur "Rise Up" An isolated young soul rises above all odds, grabs destiny by the hand and chooses life despite of the reality that was bestowed upon him. |
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Gerard Luethi Switzerland Nominee Children of the World Amateur "Enfants de Chicago" Enfants jouant devant Crown Fountain |
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Giancarlo Majocchi Italy Nominee Children of the World Amateur "sckeleton child in Mount Hagen" In Mount Hagen, Highlands Papua New Guinea, every year tribes join the Singsing Cultural Show to dance and make symbolic fights. Omo Masalai from Simbu, aka skeletons, paint their bodies as skeletons and in their group there was a children one very calm and sad. They accepted me waking around with my camera so I had the chance to shoot as I wanted and I got my pictures. |
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Giancarlo Majocchi Italy Nominee Children of the World Amateur "my future?" In Shiban, Yemen the sunset light is wonderful and I was sitting in a large plaza to get some shots. I saw the little child playing with his hoop and a group of black veiled girls coming into the child direction. It was amazing situation and I wait to get the picture I wanted. I was lucky the child stopped his play to look forward the girls and I shot. |
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Giancarlo Majocchi Italy Nominee Children of the World Amateur "Emira children" In Mount Hagen, Highlands Papua New Guinea, every year tribes join the Singsing Cultural Show to dance and make symbolic fights. Emira tribe paint their bodies with oil and mud and are very impressive. |
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Graziela Gargioni Canada Nominee Children of the World Amateur "Italian girl" |
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iris della roca France Nominee Children of the World Amateur "Photo (2)" pamela,13 years and her brother pedro henrique,6 years,favela of Vidigal,Rio de Janeiro,Brazil |
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Joydeep Mukherjee India Nominee Children of the World Amateur "Love Laugh " A young boy after a several try able to catch his pet . West Bengal- Village Taldi |
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Joydeep Mukherjee India Nominee Children of the World Amateur "Daily Life " Young Children are working for their family . Place - Orissa , In Summer |
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Kristen Gill USA Nominee Children of the World Amateur "Brazilian Boys With Books" These two boys enjoy a moment reading while sitting in a windowsill in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil |
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Mark Tedeschi Australia Nominee Children of the World Amateur "Bird attack" |
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Marti Belcher USA Nominee Children of the World Amateur "Portrayer of Lakshmi, Consort to Vishnu" This isone way young girls learn about becoming a woman in traditional societies. |
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Martin Dilger Germany Nominee Children of the World Amateur "Let Me Play" Children playing in street |
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Massimo Casal Indonesia Nominee Children of the World Amateur "Siem Reap, Cambodia" Kids playing in a water pond in Rulous |
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Melanie Black Black Ireland Nominee Children of the World Amateur "child from Vietnamese Hill Tribe" Sapa, Vietnam |
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Michele Taras Canada Nominee Children of the World Amateur "Through a Child's Eyes" This is the photograph of my friend's daughter. My friend is legally blind and has problems seeing the small details. I wanted her to be able to see up close, the beauty of her daughter's eyes, lips etc... so took this close-up photograph. |
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Michele Taras Canada Nominee Children of the World Amateur "White boy in the Philippines" Photograph of my son, Michael in the Philippines, surrounded by a curious group of youngsters. It was the first time a young white boy had ever been to this village. |
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nabil Rahme USA Nominee Children of the World Amateur "hudson" birthday |
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Nick Ng Malaysia Nominee Children of the World Amateur "Childhood Pastime" The children of the sea gypsies of Semporna in Sabah have very little luxuries, and make use of whatever available for their playtime. |
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Nick Ng Malaysia Nominee Children of the World Amateur "Childhood (2)" The children of the sea gypsies of Semporna in Sabah have very little luxuries, and make use of whatever available for their playtime. |
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Nicola Roberto Italy Nominee Children of the World Amateur "The little Jesus" The Good Friday procession in Molfetta (Italy) |
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Nicolas Lotsos Greece Nominee Children of the World Amateur "welcome" A little boy opens the door in a school/orphanage at Kibera slum in Kenya |
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Nicolas Lotsos Greece Nominee Children of the World Amateur "Young masai walk" Young masai walks in a village at the ngorongoro crater in Tanzania |
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Nicolas Lotsos Greece Nominee Children of the World Amateur "A Masai boy" Masai boy in a Masai's village open market in the mara plains in Kenya. |
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Nora Batternay USA Nominee Children of the World Amateur "Boys" |
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Panos Hanjaras Greece Nominee Children of the World Amateur "the game is dirty" Captured in the nearby streets of Plato’s Academy, at the bottom end of the ideal state. On the wall "Racism trims wages". Dedicated to Chryssa, companion to that walk. |
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Robi Chakraborty USA Nominee Children of the World Amateur "Cellphone games" West Bengal, India |
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Robi Chakraborty USA Nominee Children of the World Amateur "Make way" Street kids of Kolkata, India |
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Robi Chakraborty USA Nominee Children of the World Amateur "Children at play" Sunderbans, West Bengal, India |
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Robi Chakraborty USA Nominee Children of the World Amateur "Basking in the winter sun" Ladakh, India |
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Robi Chakraborty USA Nominee Children of the World Amateur "Chores before school" A small village in West Bengal, India |
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Robi Chakraborty USA Nominee Children of the World Amateur "Boys in Kolkata" Kolkata, India |
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Robi Chakraborty USA Nominee Children of the World Amateur "Child with pet" Child with her pet, India |
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Ron Smith Australia Nominee Children of the World Amateur "Children in Oman" Children walking on road in Sur, Oman. |
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Sandeep Dhopate India Nominee Children of the World Amateur "Falling Down While Growing up" Why do we get engulfed with outcomes and stop taking risks as we grow up? As children, we are daring and raring to go thinking less about the consequence and more about the experience. These two friends were playing in the water when they were challenged by a few of their other friends to do a somersault. Without a hitch, they decided to go for it. Ran down a few strides and leapt in unison without regard to how they were going to land. In the end, both shared an exceptional moment of achievement. |
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Sandipan Majumdar India Nominee Children of the World Amateur "Childhood (1)" I shot this photograph of young boys in West Bengal from a low angle to capture multiple layers of action. The boys abandoned a game of soccer to chase the row of geese crossing the road. |
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Serhat Demiroglu Turkey Nominee Children of the World Amateur "African Boy" Masai Mara, Kenya, 2009 |
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Silvia Lisotti Italy Nominee Children of the World Amateur "Zafimaniri child" Madagascar, dec. 2009 |
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Stefano Ravera Italy Nominee Children of the World Amateur "Boy at the door" Taken in a farmer village called Esba in the west bank of the Nile river |
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Stefano Ravera Italy Nominee Children of the World Amateur "Senior Citizen" |
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Stephan Brauchli Switzerland Nominee Children of the World Amateur "Toys of Joy" These boys in Mrauk U (Myanmar) ran after me with their toys made from trash - I was lucky to capture this scene as I did not have time to turn and merely pointed my camera at them. The image says it all. |
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Su Su China (PRC) Nominee Children of the World Amateur "SU-SU_Child of Tibet" Child of Tibet,the most beautiful eye of the world |
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Susan A. Barnett USA Nominee Children of the World Amateur "Berkeley" from the series "Not In Your Face", a typology based on the American t-shirt culture |