Black and White Photo Contest - Winners The Artist Gallery

2nd PLACE!

INTIMATE

REBEKAH GAILLARD, USA.

"The intimacy of loving yourself while simultaneously falling in love with someone else. During this intimate act, one experiences the delicate yet solid nature of love. Subjects: Alexus and Ahmad"

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1st PLACE!
CHEETAH WITH CUBS

JOHAN WILLEMS, BELGIUM.

"This photo was taken during our safari in December 2019 in the Masai Mara NP. We were lucky that the cheetah with its cups was close to the road."

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3rd PLACE!

GLORY TO THE BRAVE

THOMAS DE FRANZONI, ITALY.

"This small but proud tree on top of a Tuscan hill caught my attention from miles away. Surely one of my favorite subjects, in a unique landscape full of many photographic ideas."

IF YOU WANT TO SEE MORE ABOUT THOMAS'S WORK, TAKE A LOOK TO HIS INSTAGRAM HERE!

HONORABLE MENTIONS

IMPACT. Gareth Jones, Canada.

I spent many an hour attempting to capture a special photo of water drops impacting on a water surface. This one gave me everything I wanted, including a crystal-like sphere in the centre of the splash.

ANOTHER FACE OF WAR (1) Mouneb Taim, Syria

Walid Al-Rashed, the representative of the puppet theater, is standing behind him by children among the devastation of the city in Idlib, which is controlled by the jihadists, and they sing. How beautiful it is to live in good and peace 27/03/2019.

GIRL WITH RED ORCHID. Beáta Kovács, Netherlands.

The girl with red orchid is a part of a floral self-portrait series that seeks to question the lines between dream and real life. Flowers are a representation of brevity and vanity of life, a reminder that the most beautiful object is mutable and eventually will die.

SOFT TOUCH. Emilio Deik, Chile.

The ballet dancers in the photo are really good friends. They dance together, they live together, they even travel together. Yet they are not lovers, they have that kind of friendship where souls touch each other in a soft way.

NYC TRANSPORTATION HUB. Xia Ding, China.

A couple is walking outside the New York Transportation Hub on a winter morning.

BLACK DIAMOND. Julien Drogoul, France.

Picture taken on Diamond beach in Iceland. (2022) Long exposure on this beach are quite common but i wanted -for once- to insist on textures ans motion only, reason why I have chosen to do it in Black and White.

FIREWORKS. Enrico Pompei, Italy.

A school of small bullseye fish finds protection inside small reef caves. Moving in unison, they create ever-changing geometries, like living fireworks.

ABERRATIONS 2. Dusty Cooper, USA.

This series is titled Aberrations, meaning both deviation from expectation and an optical abnormality. I wanted to explore the juxtaposition of beauty and imperfection by capturing the moments between effort and execution.

DREAMY DEGRADE. Emilio Deik, Chile.

In a stroke of luck we, the ballerina and I, found this fountain to act as a background light. Her pose and a some orton effect made the trick to a beautiful image.

STONES AND SEA. Julien Drogoul, France.

Picture taken in Northern Ireland. 2022.

ABANDONED. Brian Bourbeau, USA.

An abandoned truck on the Guemes Island, Washington.

CARRYING IS CARING. Cheng-Han Lee, China.

The 8-year-old boy needs to carry 10 liters of water in the jerrycan walking back and forth for almost 20 kilometers every day for his family.

LAKE. Kristijan Males, Germany.

Moody day at the lake Wörthsee in Bavaria, Germany.

MOONWALK. Artem Shestakov, USA.

During my expedition to Antarctica I had meet and take a series of photos with magnificent King Penguins. Observation of the colony, their habits and communication brought great pleasure and interest in the further study of these amazing animals.

MUNDARI CATTLE CAMP. Svetlin Yosifov, Bulgaria.

The Mundari tribe of South Sudan, are known for their peculiar relationship with their cows. The relationship the Mundari man has with his cows is on a different basis which in turn nurtures the peculiar relationship between man and a cow, developing into a bond Being predominantly nomads.

SHARK CONSTELLATION. Enrico Pompei, Italy.

The livery of a young whale shark draws the silhouette like a constellation.

ANOTHER FACE OF WAR (2) Mouneb Taim, Syria

After the campaign of the Syrian regime on the countryside of Idlib and the departure of the Syrian regime forces from the city of Nayrab, usually the people of the city found all its houses destroyed, and that was in the month of Ramadan of the year 2020 in the fifth month on the 7th of the month. Neither the war nor the destruction prevented the people from holding a group breakfast for the people, which was an important habit for them in the month of Ramadan, which made them determined and determined to revive a group breakfast among each other on the rubble 23/09/2020.

BRIDGE IN THE SKY. Xia Ding, China.

A bridge in the sky which connecting the two building.

UNDERWATER MEDITATION. Enrico Pompei, Italy.

A green turtle lays on the sandy seabed in Komodo Natural Park, Indonesia.

AMMERSEE. Kristijan Males, Germany.

Small lake house on the lake Ammersee in Bavaria, Germany.

WASHINGTON MONUMENT PIGEONS. Alec Kaplan, USA.

Took this photo with my father. We woke up early to get sunrise photos of the Washington Monument initially. After some time, we noticed pigeons on the floor and came up with the idea of scaring them as I would capture this blaring photo.

THE BRIDAL VEIL. Julien Drogoul, France.

Picture taken in Glasgow, Scotland. While trying to capture this the window of a wedding shop, I got lucky to see this woman with long white hair showing up, a providential bride looking for her outfit?

HONORABLE MENTIONS

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