Fine Art Photography Awards (FAPA) announced winners of their annual photography competition.
Ukrainian photographer Maxim Dondyuk has been announced as the overall winner of Professional category with the title: Professional Fine Art Photographer of the Year 2015 and $3000 prize money. His winning series called ‘Culture of the confrontation’ documents 3 months of bloody clashes, tears, fear, Molotov cocktails, burning car tires and deaths during Ukrainian revolution in 2013.
Additionally, in Amateur category Irish photographer Jason Mcgroarty was announced as Amateur Fine Art Photographer of the Year 2015 with $2000 prize money. His winning series called ‘Project Totem’ capture the heart-stopping moment when the wild breaches the barriers of the city and reminds us that the line between humans and wildlife is not as clear-cut as we would like to believe in, and that in the animal kingdom, the only thing we can count on is unpredictability, that the unexpected should be expected.
In 2015 Fine Art Photography Awards received more than 3000 submissions from 77 countries around the world. Winners were selected by highly acclaimed panel of international judges, including: Qingjun Huang, Carolyn Guild, Klaus Kampert, Pini Hamou, Rupert Vandervell, Pongsatorn Sukhum, Kilian Schönberger, Peter Kool, Lara Zankoul and GMB Akash.
Fine Art Photography Awards conducts an annual competition for Professional and Amateur photographers. FAPA mission is to celebrate Fine Art photography and to discover emerging talent from around the world.
Full gallery of winners and nominees: www.fineartphotoawards.com

Photomanipulation: amateur – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Patrick Ems – Escaping Reality

Open Theme: professional – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Nicolas Genette – Our hands

Conceptual : professional – 3RD PLACE WINNER: Richard BACHELLIER – Renaissance

Panoramic : professional – 2ND PLACE WINNER: Silvestre Machado – Archictecture fusions

Architecture: amateur – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Mohammad Rafiee – Gateway Into Iran

Cityscape: amateur – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Dorothée Rapp – a rainy day

Architecture: professional – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Frank Machalowski – multiexpo100

Portrait: amateur – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Claudia Wycisk – joker

Fine Art: amateur – 2ND PLACE WINNER: Jurgen Beullens – A SEA OF TIME

Landscape / Seascape: professional – 2ND PLACE WINNER: Jack Curran – Death Valley Contrast

People: professional – 2ND PLACE WINNER: Sylvia de Swaan – The Passage of Time

Portrait: professional – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Erika Masterson – Parts of the Earth 2

Abstract: professional – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Candi Qianwen Jiang – My Geometric World

Portrait: amateur – 2ND PLACE WINNER: Gregor Laubsch – Face

Night Photography: amateur – 3RD PLACE WINNER: Charlotte Gilliatt – Karluv Steps

Photojournalism: amateur – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Jan Møller Hansen – Shamsul

Cityscape: professional – 2ND PLACE WINNER: Steve Geer – City Puddles

Wildlife / Animals: professional – 2ND PLACE WINNER: Mohammad Murad – Between My Feather

Fine Art: professional – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Madiha Abdo – Silver ladies

Architecture: amateur – 3RD PLACE WINNER: Anique Naseeruddeen – G

Wildlife / Animals: amateur – 1ST PLACE WINNER: José Javier Delgado Esteban – Whale Nation: Humpback Whales of the South Pacific

Street Photography: amateur – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Desislava Ignatova – Ghostly

Panoramic: amateur – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Anique Naseeruddeen – Glacial Storm

Travel: amateur – 3RD PLACE WINNER: Patrick Ems – Malecón – Miles Of Promise

Conceptual: amateur – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Jason McGroarty – Project Totem

Portrait: professional – 2ND PLACE WINNER: Alberto Alicata – [re]model

Cityscape: professional – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Julia Anna Gospodarou – Urban Saga I

Architecture: professional – 2ND PLACE WINNER: Julia Anna Gospodarou – Fluid Time – An (en)Visionographic Chicago Story

Photojournalism: professional – 2ND PLACE WINNER: nguyen vu phuoc – After the war

Nudes: professional – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Martin Krystynek – Sensual Beauty

Fashion: amateur – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Brianna Nakatani – Brianna: by Brianna
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