Entry Title: " ‘Let them eat cake’ "
Name: John Wright, United Kingdom
Category: Professional, Fashion
Entry Description: Series shot for Leica S2 promotional images and featured on GQ Style online.
The International Photography Awards conducts an annual competition for professional, non- professional, and student photographers on a global scale, creating one of the most ambitious and comprehensive competitions in the photography world today.
The winners of the main categories will compete for IPA’s top award of International Photographer of the Year. Those finalists will be invited to attend the Lucie Awards at the Lincoln Center, New York, where one photographer will be announced as the grand winner, earning the coveted Lucie Statue and a cash prize of $10,000 provided by AtEdge. In addition, the nominees in the non-professional and student categories will be invited to the Lucie Awards to compete for the title of the Discovery of the Year provided by Blurb, a Lucie Statue and $5,000 cash prize. Six nominees comprised of all levels of profession, will be invited to the Lucie Awards for the title of Deeper Perspective Photographer of the Year, where the story behind the images are dually judged, and to compete for the coveted Lucie Statue and a cash prize of $5,000.
There are tens of breathtaking photos on the main website for you to enjoy, I wish I could post them all. Here I chose a few of my favorites from various categories and with different winning places (1st, 2nd, & 3rd) including descriptions as indicated by the artists themselves. Enjoy!
Entry Title: " Day to Night, Times Square"
Name: Stephen Wilkes, United States
Category: Professional, Cityscapes
Entry Description: A "Day to Night" time lapse of Times Square in New York City.
Entry Title: " Our oceans aren’t the only ones in danger"
Name: Adam Taylor, United States
Category: Professional, Advertising
Entry Description: "Our oceans aren’t the only ones in danger" Commissioned for the Surfrider Foundation – – A series displaying the metaphorical results of humans washed up on the beach, the victims of the products we as a society carelessly discard and that end up in our oceans.
Entry Title: " Hyperspace Audi A8"
Name: igor omulecki, Poland
Category: Professional, Automotive
Entry Description: Hyperspace campaign introduce new Audi A8 on polish market. The photographs were presented during 4 exclusive events/exhibitions in Poland. Moreover, a limited edition album of only 1000 copies has been published. Several publications in art and lifestyle magazines. Finally, a website has been created www.hyperspace.pl.
Entry Title: " Women of History"
Name: Peter Lippmann, Afghanistan
Category: Professional, Fashion
Entry Description: These images are the result of a collaboration with Christian Louboutin
Entry Title: " Magic World"
Name: Adam Balcerek, Poland
Category: Professional, Product
Entry Title: " Remote Control"
Name: Claudio Allia, Italy
Category: Non-Professional, Self-Promotion
Entry Description: Mathare Valley Slum (Nairobi) A.D. 2010.
Entry Title: " Mercedes Benz Taxi Calendar"
Name: Ivo von Renner, Germany
Category: Professional, Other_AD
Entry Description: Twelve photographers had the opportunity to shoot one big calendar picture each (plus a few more to be printed smaller at the bottom) to tell a story about a taxi driver in an European country. I choose Portugal as my favorite country.
Entry Title: " Taxidermy"
Name: Marcus Peel, United Kingdom
Category: Professional, Interiors
Entry Title: " Tibetan monastery kitchens"
Name: marrigje de maar, Netherlands
Category: Professional, Interiors
Entry Description: Kitchens of Tibetan monasteries in N.Yunnan and Sichuan province, China. In these kitchens tea and food is prepared for 3 – 3000 monks.
Entry Title: " Algarve Wind Farm"
Name: Sharon Tenenbaum, Canada
Category: Professional, Industrial
Entry Title: " Swim"
Name: Randi Berez, United States
Category: Professional, Self-Promotion
Entry Title: " The Fifties Night"
Name: Frank Meyl, United States
Category: Professional, Self-Promotion
Entry Title: " Yangtze – The Long River "
Name: Nadav Kander, United Kingdom
Category: Professional, Fine Art
Entry Description: Photo book published in 2010 by Hatje Cantz. The series follows a journey upstream along China’s Yangtze River.
Entry Title: " A night in Tahrir Square."
Name: Jacopo Quaranta, Italy
Category: Professional, Editorial
Entry Description: A night in Tahrir square during the revolution.
Entry Title: " Working at the Shipyard"
Name: Larry Louie, Canada
Category: Professional, Other_ED
Entry Description: The ship breaking and ship making industry is one of the more prevalent industries in Bangladesh. With weak environmental and worker protection regulations, the industry has flourished as toxic hulls of ships are unloaded on its shores for dismantling and recycling of the useable parts.
Entry Title: " Storms 2010"
Name: Mitch Dobrowner, United States
Category: Professional, Landscapes
Entry Description: Series of images taken between July and August 2010
Entry Title: " Ice and Rock"
Name: Rafael Rojas, Switzerland
Category: Professional, Other_N
Entry Title: " Working Children of Dhaka"
Name: Larry Louie, Canada
Category: Professional, Children
Entry Description: In recent years, the prevalence of child labor has become a serious problem in many poor developing countries. Bangladesh, being one of the poorest and one of the most densely populated countries in the world; the problem of child labor is huge. It is estimated that there are 4.9 million working children between the ages of 5-15 in Bangladesh. That is 13.4% of the total work force in the country. Most of these children have no other options. Some are orphans growing up on the streets while others are forces to work due the economic hardships of their family.
Entry Title: " Electric Avenue"
Name: David Bowman, United States
Category: Professional, Night Photography
Entry Description: Every year at the end of summer, about 2 million people attend the Minnesota State Fair, including myself. I always bring a camera, and spend at least one afternoon making pictures. But in 2008, I went all 12 days — and shot with a large format camera.
Entry Title: " Gulf Oil Spill"
Name: Daniel Beltra, United States
Category: Professional, Deeper Perspective
Entry Title: " The Church Within"
Name: Giles McGarry, United Kingdom
Category: Non-Professional, Historic
Entry Title: " Harp"
Name: Rafal Krol, Ireland
Category: Non-Professional, Bridges
Entry Description: Samuel Beckett Bridge in Dublin. The shape of the spar and its cables is said to evoke an image of a harp lying on its edge. The harp is a secular icon for Ireland and things Irish.
Entry Title: " Simplicity"
Name: Marcin Bera, United Kingdom
Category: Non-Professional, Self-Promotion
Entry Title: " Megalopolis: Tokyo"
Name: Martin Stavars, Poland
Category: Non-Professional, Cityscapes
Entry Description: Tokyo, Japan
Entry Title: " Imagination"
Name: Risto Ring, Estonia
Category: Professional, Self-Promotion
Entry Description: Dancers on the rooftops.
Entry Title: " Visions of food"
Name: Julia Sent, United States
Category: Professional, Food
Entry Title: " Docklands"
Name: Rafal Krol, Ireland
Category: Non-Professional, Buildings
Source: IPA