The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards announces the overall winners and awardees of the 2011 WPGA Annual Pollux Awards, Juried by Tim Anderson, Dina Bova, Julio Hardy, Amber Terranova, Larry Padgett and David H Wells. Award Director: Julio Hardy. 20,320 images were received from 72 countries, in 6 monthly consecutive contests, whose results were merged to select the overall awardees. WPGA congratulates the winning artists and all those contestants who have participated in this 3rd edition of The Pollux Awards. Awarded works will be invited to exhibit their works at The Borges Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, from January 19th to February 27th, 2012.  (See details of the exhibition in Biennial 2012.) Those artists invited to exhibit will be receiving a personalized email on November 10th, being asked to donate one copy of their prints to Save the Children and Fleni. Exhibited prints will be auctioned at the end of the exhibition and the net proceeds of the sales (excluding printing and framing costs, which will be reimbursed to the respective artists) will be donated to the foundations Save the Children and Fleni.

Overall Results: The WPGA Pollux Award 2011 in the Professional Section (Photographer of the Year) has been awarded jointly to: Adam Balcerek, from Warsaw (Poland); Marguerite Garth, from Wrightwood, California (USA); and Alicia Moneva, from Madrid (Spain). The WPGA Pollux Award 2011 in the Non Professional Section (Photographer of the Year) has been awarded jointly to: Patrizia Burra, from Grado (Italy); Robb Johnson, from Carmel, California (USA); Dale Johnson, from Carmel, California (USA); and Hugh Jones, from Arlington, Virgina (USA). Special Mentions of the Award Director: Professional Section - Kamil Vojnar, from St Remy de Provence  France); Lung Liu, from Surrey (Canada); Dean West, from Toronto (Canada); and Anne-Christine Woehrl, from Munich (Germany). Non Professional Section - Anne Berry, from Newnan, Georgia (USA); Katerina Bodrunova, from Moscow (Russian Federation); Joy Goldkind, from St. James, New York (USA); Beatrix Jourdan, from Dakar (Senegal); Gloriann Liu, from San Luis Obispo, California (USA); Julie Ramage, from Paris (France); and Dorothée Rapp, from Herford (Germany).

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