The Photographer of the Year honors are awarded to the most outstanding photographers working in black and white

Photographer of the Year Contest

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Pixieset

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Silvershotz

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Lensrentals

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BumbleJax

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Hostinger

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Bay Photo

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Think Tank

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Portfoliobox

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Lume Cube

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Blazing Editions

International Photographer of the Year

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Resonance

Steven Benson

United States of America

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Photographer of the Year

How do we see something beyond its form, beyond what we know from our senses? How is its ephemeral nature best known? Could an abstraction or distillation of its likeness, reveal it more deeply and, in fact, more accurately? When do we stop seeing a bird and see only a fleeting gesture?

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Fleeting Gestures

RJ Muna

Silver

I distill automotive design to its essence, focusing on form rather than detail. Each piece captures the front and back from a single view, highlighting the car's curves and shape. Using my "painting with light" technique, I strip away all but the silhouette, letting the pure form take focus.

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Portrait Of Cars

Bill Pack

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An expressive pas de deux, captured in motion.

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Ballet

John Scheibe

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The bank is clothed in verdure, but it is the bird, singing loudly upon the rock on the surface of the river, that catches the eye.

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Singing Bird

Lee Ching Kai

Malaysia

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Bronze

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Confused Reflections

Jacqueline Dooren

Netherlands

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People’s Vote Award

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Simplicity

Maria Marriott

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Companionship

Eva Berler

Greece

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Longboarder Bea Conroy waiting between sets in the Mentawais.

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Float

Darcie Collington

Australia

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Designed by the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas.
The architecture of the building was acclaimed internationally. Nicolai Ouroussoff, a New York Times architecture critic, called it "the most attractive project that architect Rem Koolhaas has ever built".

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House of Music

Antonio Coelho

Portugal

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Tempodrom (gmp architetcs). Not only the sculptural form of the 37-metre-high building, with its striking white peaks, is reminiscent of a tent. The patinated membrane gives the roof a fa- scinating materiality and additionally underlines the structural interpretation of the original circus tent.

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TEMPODROM Nr.17 (gmp Architects)

MXPRIVÉ 

Germany

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In order to express the character and aesthetics of a building more strongly, I like to reduce the image to a very small section of the whole in order to enhance the expressiveness of the motif. However, without abstracting too much, but with the preservation of the recognisability of the building.

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MELH / Architect: Stephan Braunfels

A composite of 5 photos of walking people against the same window on Madison Avenue. Observe the seamless link at opposite corners and the aligned silhouettes, creating a visual harmony. The title has a dual meaning, they were passing by the window and also passing by each other.

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Passing By No.5

Zili Zhang

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In Watermelons Are Not Strawberries, I portray my inner transformation and pursuit of self-awareness while navigating the challenges related to parenting. By examining universal feelings such as sadness, happiness, and love, I found the strength to heal wounds from a lifetime of personal anxiety.

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Untitled 33, Watermelons Are Not Strawberries

Sandra Bacchi

This series is part of a larger project of photos taken during live flamenco shows started in 2020 still ongoing.
An artistic approach that, through dance and photography, aims to make people recognize their own emotions, accept their vulnerability, give it space and experience it without barriers

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DANCING VULNERABILITY AT FLAMENCO TEMPO

Valentina Benigni

France

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Rione Sanità. Napoli. 2023.

Piacenti Matteo

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perspective or position

Claudia Musal

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