1,020 series were received for the first screening, and of those 178 passed to the second screening. One winner, 4 runner ups and 29 honorable mentions were awarded, while another 100 series were finalists in the second round and will al so be featured in the book Storyteller. Sample of the images of those series are displayed below next to the names of the awardees and finalists. In this occasion we received the series from 44 countries. The first screening has been done by the Artistic and Editorial Team of WPGA while the second round was juried by Julio Hardy, managing director of the WPGA.
The participating countries were: Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, United States, Venezuela, and Vietnam  

WPGA congratulates all awardees, finalists and contestants who displayed a creative approach to the theme of this competition:

FIRST PRIZE: Kerry Mansfield, USA, for her story "Aftermath" - FIRST RUNNER UP: Hugh Jones, USA, for his story "Short Stories" - SECOND RUNNER UP: Giuliano Koren, Italy, for his story "Potocari Mass Burial" - THIRD RUNNER UP: Nermine Hammam, Egypt, for her story "Genesis" - FOURTH RUNNER UP: Patrizia Burra, Italy, for her story "The Man at Work" - HONORABLE MENTIONS: Miron Abramovici, USA, "Special Olympics" - Scott Achs, USA, "General Store Purchases" - Claudio Allia, Italy, "Out of the Box" - Bar Am-David, United Kingdom, "Portraits from Jaffa" - Susan Barnett, USA, "Not in Your Face" - Julia Baum, USA, "A Rare Breed" - Nicole Campanello, USA, "Sam" - Marguerite Garth, USA, "A Death in the Desert" - Darija Jelincic, Croatia, "The Fight is Still On" - Johann Johannesson, Iceland, "Blue Room Tryptych" - Dale Johnson, USA, "One Evening" - Robb Johnson, USA, ""Iron Horse" - Karen Divine, USA, "Not Just For Kids" - Marta Kochanek, United Kingdom, "Deliverance of Soul and Body" - Evi Lemberger, USA, "Ein Nichort or the Fairy Tale of the Galoshes of Fortune" - Tovit Lore, USA, Orthodox Wedding Unofficial Album" - Zory Montpetit, Canada, "Mirror Series" - Bijan Mottahedeh, USA, "Oil Everywhere" - Joseph Newsome, USA, "Life Charred" - Kevin O'Conell, USA, "Landscapes of Antactica" - Uchenna Okere, USA, "Sex Shop TV" - Jeannette Palsa, USA, "The Iluminati Series" - Zeev Parush, Israel, "The Mirror Tale" - Dorothee Rapp, Germany, "The Game" - Dawn Roscoe, USA, "Exquisite Suburbia" - Michael Stimola, USA, "Era's End" - Viet Van Tran, Vietnam, "Lonely" - Abdullah Yasin, Bangladesh, "Forsaken Survivors" - Galina Yotova, Bulgaria, Adjustment" - FINALISTS: Alexandra Shestakova, Russian Federation, "Moskow-Tokyo-Moskow" - Alyson Aliano, USA, "Girls, Girls, Girls; Adult Entertainers in Los Angeles" - Claudio Allia, Italy, "Remote Control" - Moshe Allon, Israel, "Jerusalem, The Holy City" - Kalliope Amorphous, USA, "Resurrecting Ophelia" - Rodrigo Athie, Brazil, "Natureza Viva" - Clerio Back, Brazil, "Living in Images" - Elle Bartnik, USA, "Story of San Francisco Cutyscape" - Drora Bashan, Israel, "White City of Tel Aviv Reflections" - Ann Berry, USA, "Sky, Land, Water" - Matteo Bertolino, Italy, "Antogo" - Tatyana Bessmertnaya, USA, "One Day" - Carola Blanco, Venezuela, "Postcard from Caracas" - JT Blatty, USA, "Round from Paula Deen's" - Leland Bobbe, USA, "Women of 5th Avenue" - Helle Bolther, Denmark, "Objects is Snow" - Joan Bowers, USA, "My Doctor's Office" - Patrizia Burra, Italy, "The Man and the Cat" - Joe Calleri, Australia, "Conversations on a Train" - Nino Canizzaro, Italy, "Iconoclasm" - Simona Cavani, Italy, "Anna, Playing with the Fairy Tales" - Jian Ming Chan, Malaysia, "Journey from Despair to Hope" - Jerry Ch'ng, Australia, "Silver Langut of Bugit Melawati" - Robyn Cook, Australia, "Journey of the Human Animal" - Blake Copland, Australia, "Lost in Lamu" - Ann Coretti, USA, "Chris and Stacey Wedding" - Alexandre Cortinhas, United Kingdom, "Hanwell" - Tomaz Crnej, Slovenia, "It's all in your mind" - Nitin Dani, "India, "A regular day at work" - Harold Davis, USA, "Story of a Preemie" - Maria de la Iglesia, Spain, "Pueblo" - Douglas Orton, USA, "Passed by Progress" - Martin Errichiello, Italy, "Lebe River Tales" - Evgueni Singatouline, Australia, "Story of a visit to a 100 years old Artist" - Fahey Dawne, Australia, "Rotterdam" - Kiarash Farahbakhsh, Iran, "Story of a Victory" - Ruddy Florentino, Dominican Republic, "Healing Aafter the Earthquake" - Blair Friederich, USA, "Surprise" - Bob Gates, USA, "Last Transfer" - Ann George, USA, "Beware of the Wolf" - Marianna Glynska, USA, "Story of One Life" - William Goodwin, USA, "India" - Martin Gremm, USA, "Citylife" - Marcus Griep, USA, "Demolition" - Lee Grossman, USA, "Dreams of Passage" - Don Gurewitz, USA, "The Masked Dance Festival, Ura, Bhutan" - Bolther Helle, Denmark, "Mother and Child" - Jann Huizenga, USA, "Story of a Sicilian Village" - Jaimee Jochinke, Australia, "Story of Repent" - Darija Jelincic, Croatia, "Boxing" - Kelsey Walsh, Australia, "Feet" - David King, USA, "Windswept Lives, Scattered Sand" - Hengki Koentjoro, Indonesia, "Freedive" - Miroslawa Kowalszuk, Poland, "Waiting" - Zeljko Krcadinac, Croatia, "Friendship thru Life, Tryptych" - Kent Krugh, USA, "Curituck Lighthouse" - E. Andrew Lindsay, United Kingdom, "World of Lies" - Alek Lindus, Greece, The Rock" - William Littlewood, Canada, "Sunflowers" - Elaine Livingstone, United Kingdom, "Moving Windows" - Emilio Lovisa, Canada, "The 70's - Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n Roll - SA Style" - Jessica Luke, USA, "A Hit and Run" - Terri-Lynne McDonald, Canada, "Bridge to better Tomorrows" - Michael Maher, USA, "Hanoi Traffic Flow" - Thomas Marquez, France, "Road to Nowhere" - Antonello Mazzei, Italy, "In Parental Houses" - Hamed Mehravaran, Iran, "WC" - Melanie Rijkers, Netherlands, "Red on Red" - Marisa Salinas, Argentina, "Story of a Broken Heart" - Mitja Pavlic, Slovenia, "About my Life" - Marlene Miyamoto, USA, "Croc Fest" - Lia Moldovan, USA, "Transformation" - Itai Monnickendam, Israel, "Borjomi Station" - Kristina Nameless, USA, "Home Sweet Home" - Deana Newcomb, USA, "West Texas" - Anne O'Connor, Australia, "On the Run Shearing Story" - Joanna Ornowska, United Kingdom, "Awake" - Audra Osborne, USA, "The Recluse" - Martha Penella, USA, "Dying Industry" - Tom Peterson, USA, "A Mornings Walk" - Irina Pidova, Bulgaria, "Sleep" - Elly Prestegard, Norway, "Imagine" - Alessandro Puccinelli, Italy, "Mare" - Jorge R Lago, Spain, "Tadecol" - Julie Ramage, France, "Story of Anna K" - Lucy Ridges, United Kingdom, "From Over There to Everywhere" - Emmanuel Rigaut, France, "Story of a Kiss" - Kat Ryals, USA, "Manimals" - Nenad Saljic, Croatia, "Birth of a Ship" - Massimo Salvatori, Italy, "Aeolian Spirit" - Joao Santos, Portugal, "Ubiquity" - Sara Lindkrantz, USA, "Impressions from a Plantation Childhood" - Sumesh Senan, United Arab Emirates, "Nature Art" - Jim Sherey, USA, "Meeting of the Ice Guardians" - Morgana Skelton, USA, "Nightmares and Dreamscapes" - Don Smarto, USA, "Barriers, The Story of Prisoners" - Carmen Spitznagel, Germany, "Memories" - Shante Stevenson, USA, "Going Home" - Yusuke Susuki, USA, "Story of a Funeral of a Young Soldier" - Rivka Tabak, Israel, Story of a Barber Shop" - Dalibor Talajic, Croatia, "City Life" - Tatyana Bessmertnaya, USA, "Taganrog" - Kathleen Taylor, USA, "Nobody Plays Here" - Thomas Teamoh, China, "Mountain Storms" - Sandro Tedde, Italy, The Empire of Light" - Ron Testa, USA, "Niagara Falls, Tryptych" - Mark Tipple, Australia, "Underwater Project" - Elke Van Der Kelen, Belgium, "A Story of Deception" - Ellie Van Houtte, USA, "Dreams for Kids: Extreme Recess Tennis" - Rekha Varghese, USA, "The Dark Side" - Tifas VH, Spain, "Bodas de Sangre" - Michael Warwick, USA, "For the Love of Steam" - Jonathan Webb, USA, "Old Train Station Bellows Falls" - Richard Weiss, USA, "Men on Bench, Sicily" - Shane Welch, USA, "Another Life" - David Winkler, USA, "Museum" - Yelena Zhavoronkova, USA, "Memories in Red" - Pirmin Zimmermann, Switzerland, "Travelling Tube"

Looking at the images you will find different stories composed of series of images, where each one is telling its own story, "speaking" by itself and configuring with the others a coherent body of work. Many of the "Storytellers" are editorial and documentary but you'll find in this selection other works expressing from surrealistic approaches to intimate portraits of family lives. We are proud to have had the occasion of gathering this impressive collection of stories told with images.

About the winner, Kerry Mansfield, lets quote Mary Ellen Mark when she awarded Kerry with an Honorable Mention in our first edition of The Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers: "Kerry Mansfield, a very beautiful young woman photographed her battle against breast cancer. These images haunted me. They were so personal and daring. This is an obvious idea, but she managed to stay away from any cliché or sense of self-pity or sentimentality. The photographs are bold, brave. I’ll never forget them. This is something the best of photography is able to do." The images of the first runner up, Hugh Jones, are an exercise of imagination mixing the human figure with the literature. The second runner up, the excellent Italian documentary photographer Giuliano Koren, display sensitive images with a subtle but dramatic denounce of the Srebrenica genocide. The third runner up, Nermine Hammam from the nowadays troubled Cairo offers us a naïf and wora vision of the Genesis; and the fourth runner up, the provocative and creative Italian artist Patrizia Burra shows a humoristic vision of the daily life while at the same time offers a critic of the macho chauvinistic approach regarding the role of the women. In the honorable mentions, as well as in the finalists' images, you'll find plenty of works that deserve to be seen and published. Just take a look and enjoy the creativeness of our artists.

Scroll down to browse the images of the winners (First Prize and Runner Ups / Honorable Mentions / Finalists)
(except in the first prize, where we display the entire story composed of 8 images, in the case of the runner ups and honorable mentions we have posted 4 images of the series, which according to our criteria represent the entire story; the finalists - a large list- are represented by one image, the image that in almost all of the cases is the expresion of the story they are telling)