Awarding a distinguished group of creators working with the camera as an art form as the Photographers of the Year

Photographer of the Year Contest

International Photographer of the Year

Promotion for fashion designer Ade Bakare.

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Dream

Jaime Travezán

Peru

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Photographer of the Year

A lone Starfighter rests in a surreal salt desert, its polished fuselage echoing a time when speed and altitude defined the edge of possibility. Set against a stark, alien-like horizon, the image merges past ambition with timeless isolation.

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Starfighter

Christiaan Van Heijst

Netherlands

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Silver

Experimental Fuji’s Double Exposure Portraits by Fuji X100f.

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Girl With the Sun On Her Head.

Tommi Viitala

Finland

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Every time I encounter one of nature's sculptures, I am struck by the contours, geometric shapes, and faceted grit of its artwork. However, as I walk away, I cherish that I have experienced a unique moment, understanding that once the warmth arrives, they will never be sen in the same way again.

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Nature's Sculpture

Lee Nordbye

Canada

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Bronze

Photographs of microscopic crystals of various substances (sweeteners, cleaning agents etc.) in polarised light on a 1970 polarising microscope, with homemade camera adapter and jerry rigged polarising filters and wave plates. A vista of colour and shape emerges, all real, and entirely photography.

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Looking Closer

Bevil Templeton-Smith

United Kingdom

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People’s Vote Award

A water pipe interrupts a tranquil rainforest, its jarring metal driving through the shrouded wild. Yet nature wins the test of time as moss has begun to reclaim the steel. This abandoned pipe once carried water from a mountain down to sea level to help power the city of Bellingham, Washington.

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The Lost Pipe

Brian Clopp

United States of America

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P.O.O.L.S. - Photography of Overhead Liner’s Symmetry - offers a rare top-down view of cruise ships, highlighting their symmetry, clean geometry, and tiny bow pools. It’s not glossy marketing, but a visual study of design, structure, and detail often missed by passengers

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Photography of Overhead Liner’s Symmetry

Yevhen Kostiuk

Ukraine

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Image taken from a commercial flight landing at LaGuardia Airport.

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Queens Neigborhood

Ricky Beron

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「Codes hidden in the Non」 is not a simple record, but an attempt to decipher the visual language that the land speaks. I wanted to convey the quiet beauty contained within it, and the order and harmony created by agriculture, through the medium of photography.

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Codes hidden in the Non

Poung Young Kwak

South Korea

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Aerial view from a helicopter of a coastal swimming pool near Sydney, Australia

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Rock swimming pool

Stuart Chape

Australia

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The amazing colours and textures of a tailing pond in a remote Nickel Mine of Western Australia. Captured from the sky.

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Opal

Mark Gray

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Polar bear after eating on a walrus. This is a rare sight, as polar bears nearly never catch so big prey. Due to climate change, catching seals is getting mor difficult, as the ice is vanishing.

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After the meal

Paal Hermansen

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This photo was taken on the early morning on the grounds of the Qatar National Museum. I wanted to highlight the dynamic curves and bold colors to emphasize the architectural design’s movement and vibrancy.

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Details

Svetlana Fadeeva

Qatar

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A mesmerizing journey into the depths of an ancient stepwell, where endless stairways and shadows intertwine, echoing centuries of history preserved in stone.

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The Labyrinth of Time

Eduardo Esses

Mexico

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A simple gap is enough to create a dream space. An opening enables the visitor to realise his own size and become aware of his existence. The window as a witness our lives and feelings. The ever-present element that connects us to time, that brings the natural landscape into the built landscape.

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Fenster

Miguel Sanchez

Switzerland

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A lone abandoned house sits precariously awaiting its fate at the edge of an eroding cliff, a symbol of the inevitable effects of time and forces of nature catching up with man. Heavy storm waves have pummeled this seaside embankment where the structure is now on the brink of certain doom.

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On the Edge

Objects of Desire is a series dedicated to objects in the work of two major painters of the Surrealist movement, Salvador Dalí and René Magritte.

It is an attempt to capture what struck me in their works and a declaration of love for the everyday objects I have always felt compelled to transform.

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Objects of Desire

Nora Hegedus

France

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Reverie Park draws on the theatrical and the nocturnal, blending real and imagined spaces across Ireland and Brazil. Juxtaposing living and deceased animals, it explores the tension between life and decay, blurring the line between reality and dream.

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Reverie Park

Diego Fabro

The Curonian Spit, amazing landscape, has been part of my life since childhood. Women – powerful, endless, giving, mysterious, dramatic, dangerous, calm, fragile, ironic, and poetic – remind me of every tiny sand particle sliding in the wind. Women have so many faces and are never fully understood.

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Amber Coast

Monika Maroziene

Lithuania

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