Russ Taylor USA 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement People Amateur "Night Scene, Krakow" A young woman smokes a cigarette outside of a restaurant in Krakow, Poland

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Russ Taylor USA 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence People Amateur "The Boatman" Ram Ji, The Boatman, Varanasi, India

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Valerie Chauffour France 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction People Amateur "Three Sisters and a Dog" France

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Ximena Gonzalez Echague USA Honorable Mention People Amateur "Remains of a Wreck" Life goes on after the wreck

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Keran Woods Australia Honorable Mention People Amateur "Alone" Woolloomooloo, Sydney. 11:37 pm. From the series 'Alone'.

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Simon Chien Taiwan Honorable Mention People Amateur "Lying in my Color Space" I'm lying in the old-fashioned Taiwan living room of color space

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Peter Voss Germany Honorable Mention People Amateur "My Family" Kolkata / India

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Carlos Eduardo Fairbairn Brazil Honorable Mention People Amateur "Coiffeur Brake"

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Deba Prasad Roy India Honorable Mention People Amateur "Indian Fishermen" THIS IS PHOTOGRAPHED IN A VILLAGE IN WEST BENGAL, INDIA. IN A COUNTRY LIKE INDIA, FISHING IS THE OTHER WORK PEOPLE PRACTICES FOR THEIR LIVELIHOOD NEXT TO AGRICULTURAL WORKS.

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Marius Noreger Norway Honorable Mention People Amateur "Bubble"

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Shankar Subramanian India Honorable Mention People Amateur "Camel Traders - Pushkar Fair" Traders bring their camels to sell at the annual camel fair , Pushkar , India. The camels are brought from various parts of the country and travel long distances on foot to reach the fair. I

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WeiSeng Chen Malaysia Honorable Mention People Amateur "Afternoon Delight" Young girl swinging from a tree in the garden, while her grandmother waters the plants in the garden. Such is the peaceful and idyllic life is a rural village home in Malacca, Malaysia.

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Beatrix Jourdan Hungary Honorable Mention People Amateur "Shiva"

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Peter Voss Germany Honorable Mention People Amateur "The Skeleton Story! (2)" Papua New Guinea

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Tal Lassman Canada Honorable Mention People Amateur "Selfies at the Park" Selfies at the Millennium Park, Chicago

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Sonal Shah USA Honorable Mention People Amateur "Sunday Lunch with Mum" New York

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Sebahat Ersoy Turkey Honorable Mention People Amateur "football is not only football"

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Robson Rogan Canada Honorable Mention People Amateur "Happy Trails" The beginning of a new journey together...British Columbia, Canada

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Abdulla AlMushaifri Qatar Nominee People Amateur "Balloons Chat"

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Adam Felde USA Nominee People Amateur "Missing Monk" Buddhist monk missing from prayer station in temple in Myanmar

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Adam Felde USA Nominee People Amateur "Novice Monk" Novice Buddhist Monk praying and studying at a temple in Myanmar

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Agnese Mosi Italy Nominee People Amateur "Chatting, Chatting, Chatting..." Women in Tuscany

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Agnese Mosi Italy Nominee People Amateur "Dancing" Dancing lesson at school, India

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Alessio Pavese Italy Nominee People Amateur "The Old Sailor" The slow walk of the old sailor...

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Alexandru Ilea Romania Nominee People Amateur "Allahabad, India" This photograph was taken in 2014 in Allahabad, India.

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Amr El-shafei USA Nominee People Amateur "Bhutan 101"

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Amr El-shafei USA Nominee People Amateur "Waiting on Customers"

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Amy Siqveland USA Nominee People Amateur "Refugee Crisis" Jordan is a key player in keeping stability in the Middle East. As social & political problems put more stress on this host community, it is urgent that other countries help solve the refugee crisis.

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Amy Siqveland USA Nominee People Amateur "Ulak" Ulak is a very popular game in Central Asia and hundreds of men compete on horseback for a dead goat carcass.I was the only woman at this sporting event and was dressed in men's clothes.

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Amy Siqveland USA Nominee People Amateur "Aksay Village" Ancient healing cave inside mountain peak. You must climb 2000 steps. Biblical King David escaped here before battle with Goliath.

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Andrew Dickman Australia Nominee People Amateur "Slingshot" Kitesurfing air time

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Anmar Tarik UK Nominee People Amateur "Old Cafe Shop in Iraq" Old cafe shop in Iraq

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Anmar Tarik UK Nominee People Amateur "Friends (2)" friends

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Anthony Iacuzzi USA Nominee People Amateur "Gomez House" A young woman standing behind a gate to a villa called Gomez House in San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, Belize. She had just stepped into the frame, not realizing that I was taking a photo of the gate.

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Arzu Aybat Yasar Turkey Nominee People Amateur "Crossroads" Agricultural rice workers, walk on the thin catwalks over the farms, which are full of water till the rices grow up.

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Beatrix Jourdan Hungary Nominee People Amateur "Wrestlers"

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Beatrix Jourdan Hungary Nominee People Amateur "Pink"

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Beatrix Jourdan Hungary Nominee People Amateur "Lazy Afternoon"

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Betty De Oliveira South Africa Nominee People Amateur "Table with a View" Diners in Bairro Alto - Lisbon

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Caleb Stein USA Nominee People Amateur "Senegalese Women on 115th Street"

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Caleb Stein USA Nominee People Amateur "14th Street"

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Caleb Stein USA Nominee People Amateur "Midtown, New York"

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Caleb Stein USA Nominee People Amateur "Ralph Lauren, Preacher, and Model"

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Chris Minihane USA Nominee People Amateur "Maasai Warrior and the Kite" A Maasai warrior enjoys learning to fly a kite for the first time over the ridge of the Ngong Hills, Kenya.

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Chris Minihane USA Nominee People Amateur "Maasai and the Bike" A Maasai warrior rides his bike home at the end of the day.

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Denis Grzetic Croatia Nominee People Amateur "Watching You Watching Me"

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Dietmar Sorgatz Germany Nominee People Amateur "New World Order" Singapore, 2014

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Dragos-Radu Dumitrescu Romania Nominee People Amateur "Bucharest 2014" Taken in the Buzesti district of Bucharest, 2014

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Estevao Lafuente Portugal Nominee People Amateur "Flower Market" India

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Eunice Vasques Brazil Nominee People Amateur "Flirting"

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Faisal Hamadah Kuwait Nominee People Amateur "Still (2)" FIG Artistic Gymnastics Challenge Cup

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Frederico Colarejo UK Nominee People Amateur "Maria dos Anjos" Granny Maria dos Anjos in the kitchen looking for food to make lunch. Since her husband Manuel passed away, Maria feels quite lonely in her little flat in Alfama, Lisbon. 2013

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Hsiao Chihliang Taiwan Nominee People Amateur "Untitled (1)"

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Joseph P. Smith Malta Nominee People Amateur "Mirror Dance" Ballet students going through their routine in front of a mirror in the dance studio.

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Joydeep Mukherjee India Nominee People Amateur "Man At Work " A man cutting down the Wool for the lambs body .. a daily job of mountain people .

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Julie Garran Australia Nominee People Amateur "Early Morning" The beginning of a days work, Pushkar, Rajasthan.

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Julie Garran Australia Nominee People Amateur "Street Dancing" Women dancing to celebrate marriage in the narrow streets of Pushkar, Rajasthan.

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Julie Garran Australia Nominee People Amateur "Why" A street corner, Pushkar, Rajasthan.

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Karen Hanley Colbert USA Nominee People Amateur "Ah, Excuse Me..." Tourist interuption during a Russian outdoor sililoquy

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Karin Charteris New Zealand Nominee People Amateur "Happiness"

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Karin Charteris New Zealand Nominee People Amateur "Turning The Prayer Wheel"

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Keran Woods Australia Nominee People Amateur "The Blues" Woolloomooloo, Sydney. 4:10 pm.

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Keran Woods Australia Nominee People Amateur "Gare de Nord"

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Kylie Garner Australia Nominee People Amateur "Smoking Man" A man smokes his cigarette surrounded by a concrete jungle.

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Kylie Garner Australia Nominee People Amateur "Baker Street" A single moment where seven lives intersect on a London Underground station.

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Lizy Manola Greece Nominee People Amateur "The Blessing" Ethiopia

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Lizy Manola Greece Nominee People Amateur "Pilgrim" Ethiopia

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Luciano Lavadini Italy Nominee People Amateur "The Wait" wait for the slow passing of time in Varanasi India.

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Manfred Voss Germany Nominee People Amateur "Shellseeker"

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Marianna Ciuffreda Italy Nominee People Amateur "In Waiting" In a gas station of yabello, a small city in the south Ethiopia, an employee is waiting for customers. There's only a big street accross south Ethiopia and a few gas stations along the road.

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Martina Platte Hong Kong Nominee People Amateur "After Business"

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Massimiliano Balo' UK Nominee People Amateur "Living Room" A man lying on the floor in front of a well-known clothing store.

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Matty Karp Israel Nominee People Amateur "Prayer" Buddhist monks praying.

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Maurizio Vicedomini Germany Nominee People Amateur "Another Day In Paradise"

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Michael Troop USA Nominee People Amateur "Artist in Wait" At the opening, waiting the first sale, of the work set forth by passion and the urge to create

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Min Tan Malaysia Nominee People Amateur "My Life"

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Muriel Bonnet France Nominee People Amateur "A Summer by the Atlantic Coast" On the beach

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Pablo Madanes Argentina Nominee People Amateur "Woman Drinking Mate" THE MATE IS A TYPICAL DRINK OF BRASIL, URUGUAY AND ARGENTINA IS COMMON TO SHARE THE SAME MATE WITH OTHER PEOPLE WHILE RELAXING THIS WOMAN WAS SHARING THE MATE WITH HER HUSBAND ON THEIR POARCH

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Panos Hanjaras Greece Nominee People Amateur "Hair Salon" The dignity of little caring moments, down town Athens, Greece.

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Pedro Farias-Nardi Dominican Republic Nominee People Amateur "From the series within the hourglass #14" Juanito, center, fixing and engine of a sand screening machine at a sand quarry in San Cristobal, Dominican Republic

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee People Amateur "Coffee-time" Togo / Benin

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee People Amateur "My Job!" Varanasi / India

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee People Amateur "In the Ghats" Varanasi / India

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee People Amateur "Curious?" Ethiopia

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee People Amateur "Hungry Pigeons" Kathmandu / Nepal

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee People Amateur "Holy Men" Kathmandu / Nepal

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee People Amateur "In the Garden" Myanmar

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee People Amateur "The Daily Walk" Myanmar

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee People Amateur "That\'s Where We Pray!" Myanmar

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee People Amateur "Fisher at sunset on Inle Lake" Myanmar

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee People Amateur "At Home" Myanmar

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee People Amateur "On Top of the Jaisalmer Fort" India

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee People Amateur "Holy Fish - Holy Man!" India

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee People Amateur "Desert Near Pakistan Border" Jaisalmer / India

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee People Amateur "Temple Guards" India

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee People Amateur "On the Flower Market" Kolkata / India

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee People Amateur "Holy Bath in the Ganges" Kolkata / India

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee People Amateur "Eagle Hunter in Mongolia" Mongolia

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee People Amateur "Mongolian Couple" Mongolia

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee People Amateur "The Camel Kiss" Mongolia

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee People Amateur "...from eye to eye" Mongolia

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee People Amateur "On the Rim" Mongolia

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee People Amateur "Wonderful Mongolia!" Mongolia

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee People Amateur "Praying at the Ganges" Kolkata / India

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee People Amateur "Omo River Ladies" Ethiopia

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee People Amateur "In the Townships" Capetown

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee People Amateur "The Bow and Arrow Man" Papua New Guinea

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee People Amateur "The Skeleton Story! (1)" Papua New Guinea

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee People Amateur "Asaro Mudmen Tribe" Papua New Guinea

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee People Amateur "Highland Widows" Papua New Guinea

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee People Amateur "Highland Widows with Grey Mud in Mourning" Papua New Guinea

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee People Amateur "Widows in Mourning" Papua New Guinea

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee People Amateur "Black Gun Men!" Papua New Guinea

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee People Amateur "Green Hair Ladies" Papua New Guinea

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee People Amateur "Black Gun Men" Papua New Guinea

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee People Amateur "Dani Headhunter Attack" Baliem Valley , West-Papua

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Peter Voss Germany Nominee People Amateur "Korowei Tree House People" In the jungle of West-Papua

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Raffaele Tuzio Italy Nominee People Amateur "Iranian Transformer" Worker in the construction site of a commercial and entertainment center in the iran's holy city of Mashhad

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Richard Zimmerman USA Nominee People Amateur "Street Swami" India swami in Delhi street

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Richard Zimmerman USA Nominee People Amateur "Street Shave" Getting a shave in Delhi's Chandi Chowk marketplace

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Robi Chakraborty USA Nominee People Amateur "Ready for Battle" Lath Mar Holi, Nandgaon, India

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Robi Chakraborty USA Nominee People Amateur "As They Were" Kutch, India

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Robi Chakraborty USA Nominee People Amateur "Gypsy Girls" Pushkar, Rajasthan, India

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Robi Chakraborty USA Nominee People Amateur "At the Fair" Haji Pir, Bhuj, India

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Robi Chakraborty USA Nominee People Amateur "Gatekeepers" Old Delhi, India

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Robi Chakraborty USA Nominee People Amateur "Sikhs" New Delhi, India

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Robi Chakraborty USA Nominee People Amateur "Road Workers" Nubra Valley, Ladakh, India

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Robi Chakraborty USA Nominee People Amateur "Veiled Woman" Pushkar, Rajasthan, India

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Robi Chakraborty USA Nominee People Amateur "Rural Woman " Sari, India

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Romain Nero Luxembourg Nominee People Amateur "Martial Arts"

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Russ Taylor USA Nominee People Amateur "Prayer Walk, Jerusalem" A man reads from a prayer book as he walks towards the Western Wall in Jerusalem

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Sean Sauber USA Nominee People Amateur "Cycling in Style" In Italy, it is all about fashion

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Sergey Grachev Russia Nominee People Amateur "Meeting" Meeting in the old town.

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Shankar Subramanian India Nominee People Amateur "Theyyam - Portrait" Gods on earth -Theyyam is a popular ritual form of worship of North Malabar in Kerala,India. The dancer along with the drummers recites the particular ritual song, which describes the myths and legend

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Steve Burkett USA Nominee People Amateur "Sunday Morning Paper" Resident on the Piazza di Trevi in Rome reads his morning paper, oblivious to the throngs of tourists at the Trevi Fountain

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Sudip Roychoudhury India Nominee People Amateur "Morning Prayer" Indian woman praying at the ghat in Varanasi, India.

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Svetlana Ilic Serbia Nominee People Amateur "Birthday in The Shed" Hill sheep farming, as well as blade sheering bring this Welsh community togetherThis image was taken during the 40th birthday celebration of a farmer which was held in the courtyard under one of his

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Tilly Meijer Netherlands Nominee People Amateur "Man on Metrostation" man on metrostation in New York.

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Trevor Kerry UK Nominee People Amateur "Sigh for Lost Youth" I noticed the squad ready to move off and the wistful glance of the officer through the closed window

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Wanki Min USA Nominee People Amateur "The Family at the Platform"

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Ximena Gonzalez Echague USA Nominee People Amateur "Absurdities 1" Oxford Street, London.

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Yi-Hsien Lee Taiwan Nominee People Amateur "A Man and his Cat" This man try to help me take a clear shot of his cat. However, he and his cat composed a lovely moment.

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