Selected among more than 2000 images from 57 countries, Magnum's photographer Steve McCurry has granted the 2012 WPGA Portrait Award to Dilip Bhatia (Mumbai, India) for his work "Akhaada Fighters". We congratulate Dilip (who also won in 2009 the first edition of the WPGA Annual Award) as well as the Runner Ups, Special Mentions of the Juror and holders of Honorable Mentions listed below.

WINNER OF THE 2012 WPGA PORTRAIT AWARD:
DILIP BHATIA, Mumbai, India, "Akhaada Fighters"

RUNNER UPS:

Andres Barria Davidson, Mexico, Lady in the Kitchen

Binh Trinh, New Zealand, Father and Daughter

Braden Summers, USA, Vanessa Ambrose

Isabell Zipfel, Germany, Portrait 2, Jharia coalfields

M. Istvan Kerekes, Hungary, Pilgrim travellers

Torkil Faeroe, Norway, San Dionisio, Nicaragua

SPECIAL MENTIONS OF THE JUROR:

Debra Jansen, USA, Alone

Edward L Rubin, USA, Birthday Boy

Eva Mueller, USA, Dario I

Georges Pacheco, France, Amalthee 1

Jodi Champagne, USA, Curiosity

Joni Kabana, USA, Abera

Viviane Moos, USA, Mother and her Three Daughters

Alice Bullough, United Kingdom, Doubling themselves in a glass

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

Alicia Moneva, Spain, The Lolita of Dream

Anette Tyler, Norway, Thinking 2

Ann-Christine Woerhl, Germany, Mariama, Witches in Exile

Carla Roberto Sparano Gomes, Brazil, Over the Sky of Paris

Beatrix Jourdan, Senegal, Happy Day

Charlotte Rush Bailey, USA, Fatima

Claudio Allia, Italy, Mathare Kid #1

Chuck Turner, USA, Long Rehearsal

David Creedon, Ireland, Raul and Maria, Havana, Cuba

Eduard Comellas, Andorra, Shave

Enrique Lopez-Tapia, Spain, Dong

Hugo Estenssoro, USA, Manuel Alvarez Bravo 1973

Jay Spilker, USA, Leta I

Johanna Henriksson, Sweden, The man in Mopt

John McGill, Lebanon, Irish Farm Woman

Kerry Mansfield, USA, Self Portrait, Chemo 4th Cycle, 03.2006

Kurt Franken, Belgium, Hope

Kerry Sharkey-Miller, USA, Couple displaced by 2010 Peruvian Flood

Len Speier, USA, Mom and Dad, Westchester, NY

Lev Tsimring, USA, Sorceress

Lisa Brockman, USA, Time

Lorne Resnik, USA, Sisters In Havana

Lung Liu, Canada, Young Girl Suffering from Agent Orange

Manuela Cigliutti, Italy, Mom gets married

Michael Schmidt, USA, Yves Profile

Nicolas Lotsos, Greece, Masai Papou

Patrizia Burra, Italy, Camy

Paul Wager, Australia, Matriach of a Khamu village in Laos

Probal Rashid, Bangladesh, Face in Black Oxide

Saud A. Faisal, Bangladesh, Born in the Smoke

Stefano Lunardi, Italy, Father and Son

Tom Bell, USA, Mother and Child

Umberto Carlo Summaruga, Italy, Waiting for John Paul II beatification

Vincent DeGroot, France, Boy in chess school in Cienfuegos Cuba

Wendy Sacks, USA, Seventeen,Series Immersed in Living

Yen Baet, United Kingdom, Quechua Family in Cusco

Zara Jarvinen, Finland, Zanzibari Girl