Summer is officially here, and along with it, colors and sunshine—these winners of PX3 bring us joy through their lenses and immense talent for capturing breathtaking photos. The Photography competition is open until the 15th of June to professional and amateur/student photographers worldwide!

Submit your work and win the prize for this year.

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#1 Like Leaves

Bronze in Nature/Trees

"Coming to Dresden, I noticed trees against the background of oilseed called rape—they looked like leaves from afar."

By Dominika Koszowska

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#2 Dance

Gold in Nature/Seasons

"The light emission of fireflies that can only be seen in Japan's limited mountains was shot with comparative synthesis.

The flash of these fireflies is very fast and beautiful.

I look forward to the light of this firefly every year."

By Naoya Yoshida

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#3 Weaving The Fishnet

Silver in Press/Travel/Tourism

Xiapu China, located in the northeastern part of Fujian Province, is the oldest county in eastern Fujian. By Xiapu's long coastline, shallow sea, sandy beaches, and beautiful mudflats, in a small fishing village, a fisherman is weaving a fishnet.

By Sarah Wouters

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#4 San Salvatore

Gold in Portraiture/Other, Gold in Press/General News, 1st Place winner in Portraiture

"These are the doctors and nurses of the Intensive Care Unit—San Salvatore Hospital in Pesaro, Italy, the city of my birth and where I once again reside, and which from day one has sadly been at the top of the COVID-19 contagion and death charts. I photographed them at the end of their shifts—twelve hours without a break during their fight in an unequal war. In the deep imprints left by their protective masks, I found a symbol of their sacrifice, but above all, I found evidence of the pain, fear, and helplessness of standing before an unknown enemy."

By Alberto Giuliani

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#5 Way To Get Water

Gold in Press/Nature/Environmental

According to United Nations statistics, there are more than 100 countries and regions in the world in need of water for daily use, 43 of which suffer from severe water shortages that threaten the survival of 2 billion people, mainly in Africa and the Middle East, where water is the source of life. In Dry and dry areas, I show people's thirst for water and cherish the imagination, so through this series of photos, remind the world to cherish water resources to protect the environment.

By Shi Chen Ren

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#6 Heart Wide Open

Bronze in Nature/Underwater

Photographed on a single breath at great depths. Intimate moments captured with animals in their natural habitat behaving freely, not disturbed by surrounding boats or scuba bubbles.

By Charlotte Piho

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#7 Taiwan's First Ba Jia Jiang Eighth Generals

Bronze in Press/People/Personality

Mr. Xu Mingzhong, a rice dumplings master, has played Ba Jia Jiang since he was 12 years old. He is the most famous performer in Taiwan.

By Chin-Fa Tzeng

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#8 Star Tracks

Silver in Special/Night Photography

These images are still time-lapses and day-to-night projects that started before sunset and finally ended about dawn due to the camera's batteries being exhausted.

By Craig Bill

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#9 Travel By Camels

Gold in Press/Travel/Tourism

People In Wahiba Desert used to travel by camels to move from one place to another in the middle of the deserts of the Sultanate of Oman and the people are proud of it so far as a kind of beautiful heritage.

By Samir Albusaidi

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#10 Gold Autumn

Bronze in Nature/Seasons

The shepherd and sheep under populus euphratica trees have a mysterious atmosphere. The naturally grown populus euphratica has freestyle and sturdy branches.

By Gerry Chiang

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#11 The Eye Of The Earth

Silver in Nature/Earth

Yellowstone National Park - Grand Prismatic Spring's colors match most of those seen in the rainbow. It gives people a feeling that it's the eye and the origin of the earth.

By Qidong Lin

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#12 Last Garden Of Eden

Bronze in Nature/Underwater

As light pierces through the trees, mystical sunbeams surround a brightly pink colored sea fan. It creates a magical and a surreal underwater forest, teeming with life and colours. Coral reefs are at the forefront of climate change, if we don’t act now they may be lost forever. I want to shed light on the beauty and importance of coral reefs as the underwater forests of our planet.

By Kevin De Vree

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#13 Seeds & Spices Solar System

Gold in Advertising/Food

A personal exploration into macro photography and focus stacking.

By Gareth Morgans

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#14 Begins A Scar

Gold in Fine Art/People, 1st Place winner in Fine Art

Begins a Scar is an art project I created for my galleries to exhibit. The work depicts the hurtful names and labels that are put on people daily. With the new Trump administration came a new breed of person in America that felt they have the right to use these racist slurs and labels to demean anyone that was not WASP. These labels are hurtful to the receiver to the point it breaks down their confidence and morale and often leads to suicide. The Installation was also accompanied by a poem from Poet Lorient, Patricia Smith.

By Sandro Miller

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#15 Flying Boys

Gold in Special/Smartphone Photography, 2nd Place winner in Special

Shot in Varanasi, India.

By Dimpy Bhalotia

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#16 Colored Underworld

Gold in Architecture/Interior, 1st Place winner in Architecture

Colored Underworld is about to show the beauty of these underground facilities through the dynamics of the colors, and to decouple them from your builder, operators, and users.

By Peter Plorin

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#17 Indian Wedding

Gold in Portraiture/Wedding

In preparation for the wedding, the bride sits and ponders.

By Yaz Media Production

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#18 High Key Hummingbirds

Bronze in Nature/Wildlife

A series of simple high-key images of Guadeloupe hummingbirds.

By Jacques-André Dupont

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#19 Sky Poetry

Silver in Nature/Sky

A skyscape at sunset or sunrise time is poetry for eyes, written by clouds and colored light. Blurred images enhance the abstraction to give the impression of a dream vision.

By Stefano Degli Esposti

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#20 Garden Flowers

Gold in Nature/Flowers

Each Botanical image is a plant that I have grown in my garden. I wanted to produce images that would capture the one essential thing that compelled me to want to look at that plant a second time. Each final image is a combination of both multiple scans and multiple camera data. Some photographs contain over 50 single images.

By Anne Mason-Hoerter

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#21 Under The Rainbow

Silver in Special/Smartphone Photography

A memorable day, ending under the rainbow

By Siar Umut Yildirim

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#22 Girl With Wild Flowers Nr.2

Bronze in Fine Art/People

When nature flourishes, so do we—this portrait uncovers beauty and wholeness and silence.

By Saskia Wagenvoort

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#23 The Irish Travelers, A Forgotten People

Gold in Portraiture/Culture, 1st Place winner in Portraiture

These series of images reflect my personal interactions with the Travelers I met at various halting sites, and illegal encampments in Galway and Limerick, outside of Dublin, and at the annual horse fair in Ballinasloe.
I first encountered the Irish Travelers through a photographic trip to Killaloe, County Clare. Although they have a savory reputation for violence and criminal behavior, I found them to be generally friendly, approachable and tragically misunderstood. I think it’s important to document the Travelers as we know them today, to collect a photographic record of a unique people.

By Rebecca Moseman

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#24 Floating

Gold in Advertising/Food

Even though the macarons seem to be floating in the air, a dynamic photograph, they are, in fact, on a flat surface.

By Chang Chia Chen (Jane Chang)

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#25 Take Your Time

Gold in Architecture/Interior, 2nd Place winner in Architecture

Time spreads expand in these interiors. Time speaks, remains. To be present and portrait it, unifies present and past. An instant of eternity. Take your time inside, stare at these spaces surrounded by outdated walls calmly. Feel peace, and serenity, recreate what once happened; forgotten lives, memories, and past glories. Something is not perceptible to our eyes: its apparent vacuousness is coming to life; crevices give way to emerging roots, shrubs, and trees. Decay is beauty. Take your time and receive peace.

By Lorenzo Lumeras

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#26 A Day Of Coal Miner

Gold in Advertising/Annual Reports, Silver in Portraiture/Personality, 2nd Place winner in Advertising

Push the trolley into the pit, push the trolley full of carbon to the miners, strengthen the tunnel's safety, repair the coal mining equipment, and then rest. Although the coal miners worked hard, they always wear a resolute smile. A day for a coal miner is the epitome of our ordinary lives.

By Chin-Fa Tzeng

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#27 Murmurations

Gold in Nature/Sky, 1st Place winner in Nature

Starling murmurations form abstract landscapes in the sky in a sublime musical rhythm. Tens of thousands of starlings fly in swooping, intricately coordinated patterns. This ballet is executed as a perfect choreography, the birds manage uncertainty while also maintaining consensus. Starlings accomplish this by paying attention to a fixed number of their neighbors in the flock, regardless of flock density — seven, to be exact. In following this role of seven, the birds are part of a dynamic system in which the parts combine to make a whole with emergent properties — and murmuration results.

Johannes Bosgra (b. 1979, NL) has traveled to the most desolate places on earth from a young age to create his contemplative work, from Antarctica to Alaska. He is selected as GUP New Dutch Photography Talent 2020. Bosgra explores the links between classical music and visual art. He has collaborated with composers and musicians such as Philip Glass, Maarten van Veen, Ralph van Raat, and Feico Deutekom to create gesamtkunstwerk of visual art and classical music. Bosgras work has been exhibited internationally in a.o. Miami, Düsseldorf, Amsterdam and Rotterdam.

By Johannes Bosgra

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#28 Story Of Tree Family

Gold in Nature/Trees, Gold in Special/Others “Special”, 1st Place winner in Special

Trees that don't look real (Surreal).

The tree family story of the Sumba sea.

I want to talk through this tree family.

Human beings are hugged by their parents when they are born.

But this tree cannot hug a child born from its roots.

Yet they are happy

They can always look to each other and pray

Modern people are too busy to meet their families.

But don't forget your family like trees that always look at each other and pray.

By Suk Eun Kim

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#29 Hunter River Sunset

Silver in Nature/Sunsets

Abandoned jetty taken on Hunter River North Arm during sunset at Fern Bay, a community that is situated on the outskirts of Newcastle, New South Wales (NSW), Australia.

By Volker Birke

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#30 Walking The Line

Bronze in Fine Art/Architecture

Right place at the right time: the photographer spent quite some time waiting for anyone to pass in front of this colourful entrance area in Amsterdam. In the end a dog proved to be just right

By Paul Brouns

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#31 Morning Catch

Bronze in Press/Travel/Tourism

Early morning in Mandalay, Myanmar.

By Vlad Kutsey

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#32 Water Flow

Gold in Nature/Earth, 2nd Place winner in Nature

I am fascinated by the aerial view of water on its pathway during the natural tidal movements. The Kimberley region in Western Australia has some of the largest tidal variations in the world, upwards of 10+ meters and the difference between high and low tide can be quite dramatic and spectacular.

Photography has been the majority of my working life in one form or another. After many years working for other companies, I now photograph for myself; both fields have given me a lifetime of joy.

By Mathew Beetson

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#33 Le Mont Saint-Michel Pendant Son Confinement

Gold in Architecture/Historic

By Vincent M.

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#34 Sky Painters

Gold in Special/Smartphone Photography, 1st Place winner in Special

If you are a tiny creature and are the target of many deadly predators, you have to find an excellent defense strategy. In this, the starlings are true masters: coordinating their movements within large flocks, they dance in the sky in unison, pretending to be a single entity that confuses and escapes its predators’ hunt.

I took in long exposure their flight in the autumnal sunsets of Rome, allowing designs to emerge in the sky as if the starlings were a myriad of pencils in the hand of a single painter.
Simone Arrigoni is a classical pianist, Freediving World Champion (he set 20 World Records in the sea, lake, under the ice, and with dolphins), and award-winning photographer.

By Simone Arrigoni

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#35 The Scavengers Of Indonesia

Gold in Portraiture/Culture, 2nd Place winner in Portraiture

The sun beats down, there is no shade, and the smell is unbearable. Another day on Indonesia's uncovered landfills.

Bantar Gebang is South East Asia’s largest open surface landfill. The pit at Bantar Gebang contains an estimated 39,000,000 tonnes of rubbish. Scavengers scrape the freshly dumped loads in an attempt to collect plastic or uncover valuables and are paid 6000Rupiah/kg, which equates to 40p a kilo. People move from all over central Java to work In Bantar Gebang, known as Pemulung (Scavenger). Many Pemulung live in small houses out of wood reclaimed from the dump.

By Tom Barnes

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#36 Frozen Gardens

Gold in Nature/Flowers, 1st Place winner in Nature

I am a keen amateur photographer, used to take lots of photos in my travels.

This touching story began during quarantine, which deprived us of a single movement. My husband started to give me flowers bought from old ladies—pensioners, not grown for sale, but simple wildflowers, collected in the garden and, unfortunately, subjected to rapid withering. To extend their life, the idea of freezing the wilting process was born. Inspired by the work of the great artists, I thought out the harmony of composition in this frozen chaos and it turned out to be completely unpredictable and exciting art.

By Olga Volianska

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#37 The Road To Cemetery Bay

Gold in Advertising/Fashion, 1st Place winner in Advertising

Retro Fashion Love story.

Alwyn is an award-winning photographer, shooting fashion and celebrity portraits. He's published in the book Silver Footprint, a fantastic set of photographs from some of the world's greatest photographers. In a charity book, Hidden Gems, 25 of Britain's leading photographers take 100 shots of famous individuals.

His image of Jerry Hall was included in her "life in pictures" book and chosen for the cover with Norman Parkinson on the back cover.

By Alwyn Coates

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#38 Pigalle Basketball

Bronze in Special/Street Photography

Pigalle district is infamously known for being the Red Light district of Paris, and home to the renowned Moulin Rouge.

By Joel Odesser

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#39 Where Is Adam?

Gold in Fine Art/Nudes

In the beginning, we all lived peacefully together in a place called paradise.

But over time, humans grew further apart from the animals.

In this series, we wonder how things could have been if we didn’t leave paradise,

is there still a way to return?

Is there a way to create anew?

Will we find a way?

The model, landscape, and animals (in their natural habitat from a safe distance) are photographed separately and form the elements for each composition. The photographs are united by digital manipulation, usually by many hours/days of hand-drawn digital/painting.

Cheraine Collette, born in the Netherlands, graduated in 2015 in Photographic Design at the Fotovakschool University of Applied Photography. Cheraine is an emerging international award-winning fine art photographer, by combining contemporary photography and new perspectives of the natural world with digital painting and photo manipulation, with a focus on capturing the world’s beauty and oneness.

She photographs fauna in their own natural habitat, in the hope to make the audience more aware that fauna can be left in peace for the final photographs.

By Cheraine Collette

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#40 Rainbow Slides

Silver in Fine Art/Architecture

The school used originality to re-plan and reshape various slides, including 7 rainbow slides, 2 15-meter tunnel slides and 2 spiral slides. There are also recreational facilities such as rocking horses, trampolines, rotating discs and slides.

By Li Po-Yi

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#41 Charcoal Black

Curator Selection

Portraits of miners at the Pniówek coal mine, 40 km southwest of Katowice, the capital of Silesia. The region contains numerous active coal mines guaranteeing the supply of coal from which Poland draws 80% of its energy. Job security, good salaries, early retirement, and, in many cases, family tradition make this an attractive occupation. Still, the profession is in an inexorable decline as many of the mines are not profitable.

Poland, one of the largest coal producers in Europe, is also one of the most polluted countries. The EU recommendation of carbon neutrality by 2050 seems out of reach.

By Alain Schroeder

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#42 Upper East Side Story

Curator Selection

The Upper East Side of Manhattan is considered New York City’s most affluent neighborhood. White-glove buildings, designer boutiques, Museum Mile, and ladies who lunch are some of the images associated with UES. The area covers 59th to 96th street from the East River to Central Park cut by avenues such as Park and Fifth. Most people have lived here for years and would not dream of leaving. When asked how they wanted to be photographed, the responses were astonishing: naked, dressed like a maharaja, in bed, etc. This series depicts a microcosm of life on the Upper East Side in NY City.

By Alain Schroeder

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#43 "Art Beyond Beauty"

Bronze in Advertising/Beauty, Silver in Book/Other

“Art Beyond Beauty” is a photographic book project born from a collaboration between Italian beauty and fashion photographer Camilla Camaglia and Israeli award-winning makeup artist Einat Dan. The book is a collection of creative makeup photography that shows how a face can be used to create art. The book's purpose is to let the world know that makeup is an art form, just like any other form of visual art.

By Camilla Camaglia

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#44 Rainbow Labyrinth Building

Bronze in Architecture/Buildings

The building has bright colors, fresh walls, and is full of vigor. Located in Jiulongpo District, Chongqing.

By Li po-Yi

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#45 The Reflection

Bronze in Advertising/Food

Studio shot of a cherry tomato and two forks with reflection.

By Leka Huie

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#46 Toilet Paper

Gold in Advertising/Self-Promotion

The image was created in my home studio while in self-isolation during the 2020 pandemic and was used in an email campaign to stay in touch with my creative contacts.

Jens Kristian Balle is originally from Ødis, a small town in the tiny Kingdom of Denmark. After discovering photography, Jens soon moved to North America to pursue a career in fine art and commercial photography. He now resides in Vancouver on the West Coast of Canada. His photography is still strongly inspired by his Scandinavian roots with a clean and graphic style.

By Jens Kristian Balle

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#47 A Cultural Genocide: Persecution Of The Largest Minority Group In China

Curator Selection

China has launched a campaign to eradicate Uyghur culture in Xinjiang. This includes placing 2 mil people into concentration camps. China contends the camps are for training & to combat Islamic extremism. Leaked documents show they’re being used for crushing the native population. In 2019 I visited 8 towns in Xinjiang & witnessed the cultural liquidation. This essay focuses on the destruction of the housing & businesses that made up the ancient Silk Road cities & show how they have been replaced with Potemkin villages, theme parks & artificial bazaars that lack any traditional character & history.

I am a photographer with a background in social work. I use my pen and camera as grassroots tools to help raise awareness for underserved populations.

By Amy Siqveland

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#48 The Children Of Iran's Gypsies: A Lost Childhood

Curator Selection

Traveling to the desert, I stumbled upon a camp of gypsies on their way from Sistan to find low-paid work in Khorasan. Opposite to traditional Iranian nomads, these people are characterized by their poverty, toughness, and at times immoral demeanor. They allowed me to take photographs for a few minutes and I focused on capturing the living conditions of the many children in this camp. Small work-worn hands, ragged shoes, and plastic patches on tents tell the story of their lost childhood.

Since 2000 Basim Ghomorlou (born 1984 in Iran) has traveled to Iran’s natural, urban, and rural areas to capture a country in transition. His work was shown in solo exhibitions in the Iranian Artists’ Forum (Khane Honarmandan) Tehran, the Isfahan Museum of Contemporary Art, and galleries around the country. In 2011 he was the first photographer in Iran to organize a photo exhibition in a remote village in Khorasan, where he has taken photographs regularly for ten years.

By Basim Ghomorlou

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#49 The Last Savings

Gold in Press/Feature Story, 1st Place winner in Press

The number suffering from hunger could go from 135 million to more than 250 million. For Bangladesh, it has become a human and food crisis catastrophe. Housemaid Hamida Begum, who is now out of work, said, “We only have forty Taka (50 US Cents) at home. We have to drink poison if we cannot go out for work. Who will save us from hunger?” The suffering of approximately 7 million slum dwellers around Dhaka city is multiplying due to a fall in income and price hikes of consumer goods. Their empty food storage and remaining little food supply can not save them from starvation in the coming days.

Mohammad Rakibul Hasan is a documentary photographer and visual artist. He is currently pursuing a Certificate of Higher Education in History of Art at the University of Oxford and studying an MA in Photography at Falmouth University. Hasan holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Photojournalism from Ateneo de Manila University and graduated in Film & Video Production from UBS Film School at the University of Sydney. He was nominated for many international awards and won several photographic competitions worldwide. His photographs have been published and exhibited internationally. He is based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and represented by Redux Pictures, USA.

By Mohammad Rakibul Hasan

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#50 Silence

Gold in Special/Night Photography

After 2000, the oil resources of Lenghu Town began to dry up. In 2008, the petroleum geological team made its last attempt and drilled an exploratory well in Oberang. Turns out, only a high-pressure boronized hot spring was found at a depth of 1,700 meters underground. A red river flows out in this special administrative area with an area of ​​17,800 square kilometers; only the executive committee and some low-yield gas well employees and vendors have fewer than 1,000 people who insist on seeking rebirth. The oil town was gradually submerged in the historical.

By Dawei Li

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#51 The Zone

Gold in Press/War, 2nd Place winner in Press

It was launched on October 9th, 2019 as ‘Operation Peace Spring’ and with the goal to create a 50-km-deep safe zone in North-East Syria between Turkey and the Kurdish self-autonomous area of Rojava.

With the abandonment of the American forces and the apathy of the West, Turkey’s incursion instead left a belt of destruction, devastation, and death. In two weeks, more than 100,000 had fled homes and villages, soldiers and civilians became victims of claimed white phosphorous attacks, while ISIS prisoners escaped captivity and left the region once again unstable and in uncertainty.

By Thea Pedersen

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#52 Power Game

Gold in Press/Political, 1st Place winner in Press

Nine years have passed in March since the democracy movement that began in Syria in 2011 turned into a war.

What was initially a simple structure of Syrian government forces vs. rebels has been replaced by an influx of various forces from outside the country.

On October 9, 2019, Turkish forces began to invade Rojava, an area of effective Kurdish control across the border, as if waiting for news of President Trump's decision to withdraw U.S. troops, announced three days earlier. Turkey, Russia, U.S., ISIS, Kurds, and Syrian Forces are in. Now, the war in Syria has entered a new phase.

By Yusuke Suzuki

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#53 The Gambia — Victims & Resisters

Gold in Portraiture/Other

The Gambia is a popular holiday destination, but few tourists know of the dark underbelly of 'The Smiling Coast of Africa'. From 1994-2017 President Jammeh ruled the Gambia as his fiefdom, crushing opposition & dissent with brutality. He ordered his hit squad & intelligence agency to carry out tortures, assassinations, disappearances, and acts of sexual violence with impunity. The portraits & testimonies are part of an ongoing series to tell the stories of the victims & resisters of a dictatorship, to expose the extensive human rights abuses, as a tool of advocacy, and to create a historical archive.

By Jason Florio

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#54 Yin-Yang

Gold in Fine Art/Collage

Yin is characterized as inward energy that is feminine, still, dark, and negative. On the other hand, yang is characterized as outward energy, masculine, hot, bright, and positive.

The two opposites of yin and yang attract and complement each other. Yin elements can contain certain parts of yang, and yang can have some components of yin. These works are composed of the illuminated bamboo forest image and its B&W reversed image which is inspired by ink-wash painting, Suiboku-ga.

Takeo Hirose was born in Kyoto, 1962. After graduating from Hitotsubashi University, he worked for several famous food companies.

He started studying photography in earnest in 2011 when Japan suffered from a huge earthquake disaster.

Through the earthquake, he understood that the beautiful sceneries are not eternal but actually very fragile, and noticed the importance of taking photos of the Japanese beauty.

His production concept is to express the world of traditional Japanese paintings and ink paintings with modern Japanese sensibility and photo technology.

By Takeo Hirose

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#55 Art In Public Space

Bronze in Architecture/Other Architecture

LE HAVRE celebration of the 500th.

By Franz Sussbauer

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#56 Ciel

Silver in Nature/Sunsets

These series explore different sunset colors in different continents that meet the common sensations of the individuality of countries.

By Dimitri Bogachuk