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Photographer of the Year

Self-portrait taken with the front camera of my phone + voice control, within a tiny field of green next to a busy highway. Again and again fascinating how the perspective we choose, allows us to tell a completely different story.

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Laura Zalenga

Netherlands

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Silver

Humans replace endangered species with more advanced ones—the plastic-made species will soon rule the underwater world.
You see the modern Ghost, Rabbit, Fly, Influencer, Jellyfish, and an angel, who will repent for not managing to guide us to save this world after the end of our time.

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New Cosmos Underwater

Alexej Sachov

Ukraine

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This work takes its inspiration from the cubist movement. The chiaroscuro lighting embraces shadows and light as juxtapositional tools to deconstruct familiar objects and transform them into a surreal composition.

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In Between the Shadows

Sander Vos

United Kingdom

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Bronze

A project about preservation and memories. Placed in a reduced and ordinary ambiance those sceneries induce a reflection about the singularity of nature and it’s vulnerability….

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Preserved-View

Olivier Meriel

France

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A spaceman is lost at sea in this surreal photograph by Samantha Hearn. Shot with a pitch-forked tripod bearing a red-gelled Speedlight, stationed in the water just inches away from the model - who was brave enough to be knee deep in the frigid February waves of Lake Michigan. Model: Stephen Dillon.

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Lost at Sea

Samantha Hearn

This artwork is part of the series called "Fragments of a Forgotten Symphony". 
The moment when the past and the future meet, blend and give rise to the now.
The present moment that transforms the lessons of the past into the hope of what is to come.

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Masquerade

Michaela Kindle & Daniel Ricardo González

Germany

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The Toymaker

Peter Rooney

Thailand

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People's Vote Award

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Blackberg Variations

Zili Zhang

United States of America

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