June Contest Pollux Awards

Best Image of the Month: “Just Me and My Mother” by Liz Loh-Taylor, Australia

Awarded Portfolios and Single Images in the May Pollux Awards Contest:

(all these images will be included in the final selection of the Pollux Awards)

Portfolio Section - Professional Photographers

Architecture:

1^st Prize: Claudio Bader, Switzerland, "Centrovale"

Culture and Daily Life:

1^st Prize: Ed Kashi, USA, "Outside Friday Prayers at the Mosque"

Editorial and Current Affairs:

1st Prize: Giovanni Troilo, Italy, "Getting to Ostia is Beatiful"

Fine Art:

1^st Prize: Orly Aviv, Israel, "Un Space 10"

Humanitarian Documentary:

1^st Prize (shared): Bryan Meltz, USA, "Grandmother, Los Palis, Haiti"

1st Prize (shared): Ed Kashi, USA, "Nguyen Thi Ly at home with her mother"

People:

1st Prize: Dilip Bhatia, India, "Akhaada Wrestlers"

2nd Prize: Ewen Spencer, United Kingdom, "Ivan, San Ferdinando, Calabria, Italy"

Portfolio Section - Non Professional Photographers

Animals and Wildlife:

1^st Prize: Anne Berry, USA, ”Orangutan"

Architecture:

1^st Prize: Vincent Carney, USA, ”Room no. 335"

Children:

1st Prize: Allen Lubitz, USA, "Children of Peru”

2^nd Prize: Susan Barnett, USA, "I Will Save the World"

Culture and Daily Life:

1^st Prize: Jeffrey Bright, Ireland, "Sulphur Mines"

Environmental Issues:

1^st Prize: Isabell Zipfel, Germany, "In Jharia, in the Federal State of Jhark"

2^nd Prize: Mandy Barker, United Kingdom, "SOUP: Plastic Oceanic Debris”

Fine Art:

1^st Prize: Cathrin Schultz, USA, "Poolside"

2^nd Prize: Stelios Karatheodorou, Greece, "Umbrella Diaries”

Humanitarian Documentary:

1^st Prize: Gloriann Liu, USA, "Forgotten Afghanistan”

2^nd Prize: Glorian Liu, USA, "Hidden War of Afghanistan”

Landscapes and Seascapes:

1^st Prize: Cynthia Fleury, USA, "Harbor Sunrise"

Nature:

1st Prize: Kalliopi Tzermnia, Greece, "Sacred Woods"

Portrait:

1^st Prize: Michael Cohen, Israel, "Untitled”

Sports:

1st Prize: Nenad Saljic, Croatia, "Cave Marnet"

Single Images - Professional Photographers

Abstract:

1^st Prize: Dick Norbish, USA, "Autumn of My Love”

Animals and Wildlife:

1^st Prize: Alina Bliach, USA, "The Final Journey"

Architecture:

1st Prize: Ralph de Pagter, Netherlands, "Everlasting Heritage"

Children:

1st Prize: Liz Loh-Taylor, Australia, "Daniel"

Cityscapes:

1st Prize: Bobbe Leland, USA, "Thursday"

2nd Prize: Alina Bliach, USA, "Skyline Bubble"

3rd Prize: Merrill Shea, USA, Rumford, Maine"

Culture and Daily Life:

1^st Prize: Svetlana Batura, Lithuania, "Mental Equilibrium"

2^nd Prize: Merrill Shea, USA, "Winter in Venice"

3^rd Prize: Svetlana Batura, Luthuania, "Winter Tale"

Digital Manipulation:

1st Prize: Alicia Moneva, Spain, "Human Delusion"

Environmental Issues:

1st Prize: Ralph de Pagter, Netherlands, "Battle against the Sea"

Figure and Nude:

1^st Prize: MIchael Cohen, Israel, "Dea waving"

2^nd Prize: Alina Bliach, USA, "Aphrodite"

3rd Prize: Dick Norbisch, USA, "Projected Nude"

Fine Art:

1^st Prize: JT Blatty, , USA, "The Strobe"

2^nd Prize: Svein Rosseland, Norway, “Female Fragments 1”

Humanitarian Documentary:

1st Prize: Liz Loh-Taylor, Australia, "Just Me and My Mother"

2nd Prize: Ed Kashi, USA, "9 years old victim of Agent Orange, 2011"

Landscapes and Seascapes:

1^st Prize: Rosa Isabel Vazquez Lopez, Spain, "Sea Planet”

2^nd Prize: Merrill Shea, USA, "Untitled”

3^rd Prize: Rosa Isabel Vazquez Lopez, Spain, "Olas y Naufragios”

Performing Arts:

1^st Prize: Ralph de Pagter, Netherlands, "Dance Macabre"

Portrait:

1^st Prize: Alessandro Marsina, Italy, "Odri"

2^nd Prize: Gerald Mocarsky, USA, "In The Belly of the Beast"

Still Life:

1st Prize: Dick Norbisch, USA, "Vanishing Life"

Wedding:

1st Prize: Chao Hsin Lee, Taiwan, "Kong & Mow"

Single Images - Non Professional Photographers

Abstract:

1^st Prize: Mandy Barker, United Kingdom, "10-20 Years, Plastic Anemone"

2^nd Prize: Donato Cosmo, Italy, "Timeless"

3rd Prize: Hugh Jones, USA, "Trace Revealing Trace 2"

Alternative Processes:

1^st Prize: Patrizia Burra, Italy, "Dream III"

Animals and Wildlife:

1^st Prize: Trish Woodford, Australia, "Three Little Ducks"

2^nd Prize:Abdulkader Abouasleba, Qatar, "If You Dare Come"

3^rd Prize: Michael Cohen, Israel, "Untitled"

Architecture:

1^st Prize: Thomas Holtkoetter, Germany, "Kueppersmuehle"

2^nd Prize (shared): Suzi Livingstone, United Kingdom, "Starry Starry Night"

2^nd Prize (shared): Hugh Jones, USA, "Torre Del Mangia, Siena, Italy"

3^rd Prize (shared): Thomas Holtkoetter, Germany, Caixa"

3rd Prize (shared): Eve Lim, Singapore, "Little India"

3rd Prize (shared): Sandro Tedde, Italy, "Abstract Arquitecture 2"

Children:

1^st Prize: Jacqueline Langelier, USA, ”Untitled 6"

2^nd Prize (shared): Monika Merva, USA, ”Lilla"

2nd Prize (shared): Michael Maher, USA, "Fountain Girl"

3^rd Prize: Trish Woodford, Australia, ”BFF"

Cityscapes:

1^st Prize: Tomas Frid, Sweden, "Untitled 2"

2^nd Prize: Hugh Jones, USA, "Central Park, NY”

Culture and Daily Life:

1^st Prize: Hugh Jones, USA, "LA Art Scene"

2^nd Prize: Trish Woodford, Australia, "Devotion"

3^rd Prize: Allen Lubitz, USA, "Mushing"

Environmental Issues:

1^st Prize: Mandy Barker, United Kingdom, "Soup: Turtles - Plastic Ocean Debris"

Figure and Nude:

1^st Prize: Hugh Jones, USA, "Eve"

Fine Art:

1^st Prize: Allen Lubitz, USA, "Circles"

2^nd Prize: Nenad Saljic, Croatia, "Unity"

3^rd Prize: Carolina Cantore, Argentina, "Encuentro con la Luz"

Landscapes and Seascapes:

1^st Prize: Lois Burgess, Canada, ”Reflections"

2^nd Prize: Jeffrey Batt, USA, "Rainbow"

3^rd Prize: Lois Burgess, Canada, "Serenity"

Macro and Micro:

1st Prize: Hugh Jones, USA, "Manarola Cinque Terre, Italy"

2nd Prize: Abdulkader Abouasleba, Qatar, "Survival Battle"

3rd Prize: Bernardo Cesare, Italy, MicROCKscopica - Sunflower of Quartz"

Nature:

1^st Prize: Mauro Ippolito, Italy, ”Yellow Leaves"

2^nd Prize: Abdulkader Abouasleba, Qatar, "Water Beauty"”

People:

1^st Prize: Monika Merva, USA "Cotton Candy"

2^nd Prize: Trish Woodford, Australia, "Mohawks"

3^rd Prize: M. Istvan Kerekes, Hungary, "Women from Maramures"

Performing Arts:

1^st Prize: Trish Woodford, Australia, "Life is a Cabaret"

Portrait:

1^st Prize: Tomas Frid, Sweden, "Untitled"

2^nd Prize (shared): Thomas Holtkoetter, Germany, "95"

2nd Prize (shared): Sam Miller, USA, "Harim"

3^rd Prize (shared): M. Istvan Kerekes, "Galina"

3rd Prize (shared): Rasmus Vasli, Norway, "In-laws"

Self Portrait:

1^st Prize: Carolina Cantore, Argentina, "Encuentro con la luz - Selfportrait”

2^nd Prize: Erin Solomons, United Kingdom, "Domestic Vagancy”

Sports: