7560 images were received from 57 countries
1286 (17%) images passed the first screening and were entered into the second screening.
158 images (2% of the total submitted) of 147 artists were selected to be featured in the Book Portraits and People 2011.

Participating Countries:
Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany,
Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, Montenegro, Mozambique, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Qatar,
Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, United States, Venezuela, and Vietnam

WPGA congratulates all awardees:

(Scroll down to see the images of all the awardees)

FIRST PRIZE:
M. István Kerekes, EFIAP, Hungary;
SECOND PRIZE:
Irina Chirkova, Russia;
RUNNERS UP:
Joy Goldkind, USA; Helene Fjell, Norway; Marie Alix, United Kingdom; Hannah Stewart,USA; Nikolay Sednin, Russia;
SPECIAL MENTION OF THE JURORS:
Szuzsanna Dofka, Hungary; Adam Fleishman, USA; Ann George, USA; Martin Gremm, USA; Jayne Dennis, United Kingdom; Rania Matar, USA; Tyler Stableford, USA; Roberta Stone, USA;
GOLD AWARDS:
Claudio Allia, Italy; Jenny Altschuler, South Africa; Anna Keresztúri, Hungary; Kristyna Archer, USA; Marta Azevedo, USA; Bedros Azinyan, Bulgaria; Susan Barnett, USA; Tom Bell, USA; Aron Borbath, Romania; Patrizia Burra, Italy; Peter Busák, Hungary; Paul Dooley, United Kingdom; Gabor Dvornik, Hungary; Mary Economidy, USA; Eli Lund, Norway; John Ferguson, United Kingdom; Terri Garland, USA; Tori Gawelczyk, USA; Hany Ghannam, Egypt; Susan Graham, USA; Juliet Howden, USA; Debra Jansen, USA; Zara Jarvinen, Finland; Tom Johnson, USA; Kiss Lorant, Hungary; Giuliano Koren, Italy; Julie Lance, USA; Laszlo Aradi, Hungary; Laszlo Ligeti, Hungary; Nic Lyons, USA; Maria Foley, USA; Ron Mayhew, USA; Helen Morse, USA; Lea Mueller, USA; Edward Olive, Spain; Lydia Panas, USA; Jane Paradise, USA; Adriana Pinosanu, China; Istvan Pinter, Hungary; Julie Ramage, France; Richard Rapfogel, USA; Benyamin Reich, Germany; Eli Reinholdtsen, Norway; Steve Reynolds, United Kingdom; Nikki Rixon, South Africa; Rebecca Rothey, USA; Ana Sarrion, Spain; Zachary Spira-Bauer, USA; Steven Lopez, USA; Adrienn Szalkai, Hungary; Andrea Tese, USA; Tim Chandra, Canada; Damian Wampler, USA;
SILVER AWARDS:
Miron Abramovici, USA; Omid Akhavan, USA; Moshe Allon, Israel; Zuhair Al-Traifi, Saudi Arabia; Kristin Anderson, USA; Andras Pajor, Hungary; Anikó Udvarheyi, Hungary; Nir Arieli, USA; Sharon Arnold, USA; Artur Sobczyk, Poland; Verity Assad, United Kingdom; Pataki Balazs, Belgium; Joyce Baldassarre, USA; Barbara Barbour, USA; Laurie Bartlett, Australia; Elle Bartnik, USA; Joan Benney, USA; JT Blatty, USA; Clay Bodvin, New Zealand; Philippe Bouchet, France; Ann Brandeis, USA; Liz Brown, USA; Joe Calleri, Australia; Charlena Cavender, USA; Rajarshi Chakrabarti, India; Eric Chalifour, USA; Claude Peschel Dutombe, Thailand; Robyn Cook, Australia; Logan Crable, USA; Csaba Hatszegi, Romania; Toth Csongor-Ferenc, Turkey; Dagomir Kaszlikowski, Singapore; David Biró, Hungary; Chris Denner, United Kingdom; Amy Dienes, USA; Mike DiRenzo, USA; Dmitry Kuznetsov, Belarus; Dóra Szücs, Hungary; Estelle Dougier, France; Christopher Drouillard, USA; Paul Duca, USA; Roman Duszek, USA; Eric Klemm, Canada; Henry Fernando, Canada; Ian Flanders, Australia; Gianni Forte, United Kingdom; Georges Pacheco, France; Arne Gjone, Norway; Clark Most, USA; Margaret Olsen, USA; Marianna Ostrovskaya, USA; Sergey Pavlov, Belarus; Matthew Payne, United Kingdom; Dominique Pichard, France; Ákos Pilló, Hungary; Andi Popescu, Romania; John Puffer, USA; Jessica Rigley, United Kingdom; Hugo Rittson, United Kingdom; Denver Rodriguez, Canada; Chris Saunders, South Africa; Kateryna Skyrpo, Canada; Karolina Sobel, Germany; Dalibor Talajic, Croatia; Maria Teicher, USA; Adam Urban, Hungary; and Yelena Zhavoronkova, USAScroll down to see the images of the winners

FIRST PRIZE

M. István Kerekes, EFIAP, Hungary
for his images
The Look, Shepherd Destiny, and Yelena

Irina Chirkova, Russia
for her images from the series Mono