First Place Winner – Portrait

Tim FrancoTitle: Illicit InkAbout the Photo:An obscure South Korean law makes tattooing technically illegal. Although this does not stop a growing number of underground tattoo parlors to open in people’s home or in hidden rooms, it does pose a challenge for a young generation looking

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Unexpected Geology

Ellen JantzenTitle: Unexpected GeologyAbout the Photo:In this series I am exploring the realm of one’s environmental surroundings, how that is absorbed into one’s psyche and how this changes through relocations.My move from the relatively flat Midwest (my place of birth) to the mountainous West (New

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Timeline 4

Luuk de HaanTitle: Timeline 4About the Photo:First a drawing – consisting of geometric shapes – with contemporary software is created. This drawing is then photographed directly from the screen.The single-shot recording of this drawing is for a large part determined by the movement of the

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The winter of my discontent

Kim DiazTitle: The winter of my discontentAbout the Photo:With moving, my father dying of cancer after just losing my stepdad, taking care of my mom with dementia, then my Chevy Silverado had to be flat-bedded away because her brakes went

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Take Me Home

Anna SterlingTitle: Take Me HomeAbout the Photo:Self-portraiture.Anna Sterling is a surreal art photographer based in Hamburg/Germany.She focuses on self-portraits and surreal photo manipulations – especially digital outdoor photography and photography in front of a green screen.Anna has been involved in photography since she was a

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Somewhere In-Between

Yvonne RaulstonTitle: Somewhere In-BetweenAbout the Photo:Recently I travelled to Vietnam and Cambodia on a river cruise where we explored the Mekong. I found it fascinating to see the many small working boats still on the water, although numbers have dropped and this will change over

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