There are lots of photography competitions out there, but few are as special as the opportunity we’re offering Digital Camera World readers.

We’ve partnered with the international sight-saving charity ORBIS to offer one lucky Digital Camera World reader the opportunity to put everything you’ve learned in our popular Shoot Like A Pro series to the test and do something truly meaningful with your photography.

For more details on the prize and how to enter this exclusive photo competition, see below.

THE PRIZE

The international blindness prevention charity ORBIS is offering Digital Camera World readers the opportunity of a lifetime to give something back with their photography.

The winning photographer from this photo competition will travel with a delegation from ORBIS to Geta Eye Hospital, in Dhangadhi, Nepal, where the photographer will be on assignment with the charity, tasked with documenting ORBIS’ work. From Dhangadhi, the winner will then travel with ORBIS for an additional two days documenting its work at Pokhara Hospital, Kathmandu.

The resulting images will then be used by the charity to increase awareness of issues relating to blindness and deliver help to those who need it most.

HOW TO ENTER

To win this fantastic opportunity, photographers are asked to submit a small portfolio of three images along the theme of Outdoor Portraits. This can be done via the entry form on the competition page at the link below.

Images must be 72dpi and no bigger than 800 pixels along their longest edge. Entries will be accepted until 16 August 2013, after which our judges will select a shortlist of five photographers.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

• Our judges will conduct a short interview with each shortlisted photographer about his or her portfolio, and a winner will be announced at the end of August 2013.
• The winning photographer will leave London with ORBIS for the assignment, which will take place from 22 to 27 October 2013.
• Your flight, accommodation and transfers will be covered, but all other in-country expenses such as food and drink will be your responsibility.
• This competition is open to UK residents only.
• Entrants will be informed of the winner following judging via ORBIS’s newsletter
• Full terms and conditions from ORBIS and Digital Camera World can be found on the competition entry page at the link below.

CLICK HERE TO ENTER YOUR IMAGES

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The three categories of the competition were: People, Places, and Nature, which awarded a winner for each category. In addition, there was a Grand Prize winner and a collection of Viewer’s Choice Winners.

Photographer Ashley Vincent/National Geographic

Grand Prize Winner Nature Winner

THE EXPLOSION!

Photo and caption by Ashely Vincent via National Geographic

The subject’s name is Busaba, a well cared for Indochinese Tigress whose home is at Khao Kheow Open Zoo, Thailand. I had taken many portraits of Busaba previously and it was becoming more and more difficult to come up with an image that appeared any different to the others. Which is why I took to observing her more carefully during my visits in the hope of capturing something of a behavioural shot. The opportunity finally presented itself while watching Busaba enjoying her private pool then shaking herself dry. In all humility I have to say that Mother Nature smiled favourably on me that day! – Ashley Vincent

Photo Location

Khao Kheow Open Zoo, Chonburi, Thailand

Photographer Michael Eastman/National Geographic

Honorable Mention – Nature

Photo and caption by Michael Eastman

With his exceptional hearing a red fox has targeted a mouse hidden under 2 feet of crusted snow. Springing high in the air he breaks through the crusted spring snow with his nose and his body is completely vertical as he grabs the mouse under the snow. – Michael Eastman

Photo Location

Squaw Creek, Park Country, Wyoming

Photographer Sanjeev Bhor/National Geographic

Viewers’ Choice Nature Winner

Photo and caption by Sanjeev Bhor

Everyday in mara starts with something new and different and day ends with memorable experiences with spectacular photographs . I was very lucky of sighting and photographing Malaika the name of female Cheetah and her cub . she is well known for its habit to jump on vehicles. She learned that from her mother Kike, and Kike from her mother Amber.Like her mother she is teaching lessons to her cub . Teaching lessons means addition of another moment for tourist . This is one of the tender moment between Malaika and her cub . I was very lucky to capture that moment. – Sanjeev Bhor

Photo Location

Masai mara National Reserve , Kenya

Photographer Micah Albert/National Geographic

People Winner

Photo and caption by Micah Albert

Kenya’s Dandora Municipal Dump Site is the only dumping location for waste in Nairobi, East Africa’s most populous city. Located just 8 km from the central business district, the 30-acre Dandora site literally spills into the households of nearly 1 million people living in nearby slums. Behind the statistics of children with respiratory ailments, toxic blood lead levels, skin disorders, and fatal diseases directly attributed to the waste are stories of communities that have grown to depend on the dump–from street children who live off the money they make selling food and other items they find in its piles to residents who are paid pennies a day by private cartels to sort and recycle waste. The country’s leadership has long shown alarming indifference to Dandora – ignoring environmental laws, UN-commissioned health studies, and calls for closure from human rights groups. – Micah Albert

Photo Location

Dandora, Kenya

Photographer Ulrich Lamber/National Geographic

Honorable Mention – People

Photo and caption by Ulrich Lambert

Stilt fishing is a typical fishing technique only seen in Sri Lanka. The fishermen sit on a cross bar called a petta tied to a vertical pole planted into the coral reef. This long exposure shot shows how unstable their position is.

Photo Location

Midigama, Sri Lanka

Photographer Nenad Saljic/National Geographic

Places Winner

Photo and caption by Nenad Saljic

The Matterhorn 4478 m at full moon.

Photo Location

Zermatt, Switzerland

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For a chance to win an iPad 3 and a 12-month subscription to either Digital Camera, PhotoPlus, N-Photo, or Practical Photoshop, simply answer the following question correctly by choosing one of the multiple choice answers:

What is the resolution of the iPad 3?

• 2048×1536
• 1024×768
• 512×384

Enter via our Facebook page!

In the meantime, why not take a look at our iPad/iPhone edition? The latest issue includes the most recent instalment of our Teach Yourself Photography video lesson, three Photoshop video lessons, and a review of the Nikon D4! Our cover and contents pages include clickable links, plus the free sports photography supplement from the print edition is also available!

You can download it here if you are in the UK, and here if you are located outside the UK.

Upside Down – Magdalena Wasiczek

Overall winner of International Garden Photographer of the Year 2011 competition. This entry also won the ‘Wildlife Havens’ category.

Summer in Rain – Magdalena Wasiczek

Winner of the Beauty of Plants category

In the Garden of the Four Seasons – Roger Foley

Winner of the Beautiful Gardens category

Boat House – Dace Umblija

Winner of the Breathing Spaces category

Quince – Henrique Souto

Winner of the Bountiful Earth category

Forest Dwellers – Kerekes István

Winner of the Trees, Woods & Forests category

Lava Ferns – Steve Nicholls

Winner of the Fragile Landscapes category

Conversations from a Balcony at dusk along the High Line – Clare Takacs

Winner of the Greening the City category

Hummingbird (Grey-tailed Mountaingem), by Patrick Corning

Winner of Young Garden Photographer of the Year 2012

Do you have a great garden photography image? The sixth IGPOTY competition is now open and accepting entries until 20 November 2012. Visit the IGPOTY website to find out how to enter.

Entries were of a high standard and made it very difficult to choose our five winners! We’ve listed five commended entries along with the winning shots, and included an explanation by Deputy Editor Paul Grogan as to just what it is we like about these photographs. The winning photographers will each receive a copy of Portrait Photography: The Ultimate Guide to Better People Photos.

Winning entries

By Jim Mortram

Documentary reportage at its finest – it’s as if the camera isn’t even there. – Paul Grogan, Deputy Editor

By Sevgi Ky

This is an intriguing and highly original portrait, and the processing suits the subject perfectly. – Paul Grogan, Deputy Editor

By Paul McMahon

The background is slightly distracting in this shot, but it gives it an on-the-fly feel, and the intensity of the girl’s gaze, and the superb processing, more than make up for it. – Paul Grogan, Deputy Editor

By Daniel Reichert

Composition is the key to this stunning image, with the cello and its strings dividing the frame into quarters and framing the musician quite brilliantly. I also like the really tight crop of the subject’s face and head. – Paul Grogan, Deputy Editor

By Finn Dudaniec

A costume drama in every sense of the word. I particularly like the slightly off-kilter composition, and the carefully placed joker in the hat. – Paul Grogan, Deputy Editor

The five winning entries will each receive a copy of Digital Camera’s Portrait Photography: The Ultimate Guide to Better People Photos.

Commended entries

By Sevgi Ky

Quirky, original and brilliantly posed. The backlighting gives this shot a wonderfully atmospheric feel, and positioning the subject dead centre just goes to show that rules are there to be broken. – Paul Grogan, Deputy Editor

S, by Bart Hoga

I love the make-up in this stylised shot, and the porcelain skin of the model, which is made all the more striking by the deep colour of her dress. – Paul Grogan, Deputy Editor 

Isobel, by Karen Oliver

A priceless expression, perfectly captured, and the processing hits the spot to, with its nostalgic, ’70s feel. – Paul Grogan, Deputy Editor

Mimi in the City, by Ray Liu

It’s the beautifully balanced composition – and the way the background follows the curve of the model’s shoulder – that makes this shot. – Paul Grogan, Deputy Editor

By Daniel Reichert

Getting an expression this natural, and this unguarded, is harder than it looks. A classic head and shoulders shot that really captures the sitter’s personality. – Paul Grogan, Deputy Editor

The landmark V1 (along with its younger sibling, the J1) marks Nikon’s first foray into the compact system camera market. Designed for the mobile photographer, its fast performance, advanced features and newly designed interchangeable lens system will help you take creative images of the highest quality wherever you go.

How to Win a Nikon V1 kit

For a chance at winning a fabulous new Nikon V1 + 10-30mm lens kit all you have to do is visit us at the Focus On Imaging show.

Come by the Digital Camera stand at E42 and say hello. We’ll scan your entry badge, and your name will go into a draw. It’s that simple!

Focus On Imaging runs from 4 to 7 March at the Birmingham National Exhibition Centre. Come by and say hello on any of those days and we’ll enter you into the draw.

On 30 March we will draw a name at random, and this lucky person will win the Nikon V1 kit. Once the winner is notified, we will post an announcement on our website.

The winner will also be profiled in the next issue of our sister title, N-Photo, the magazine dedicated solely to Nikon photographers, following the 30 March draw, as well as on our websites.

For more information on the Focus show, visit the Focus On Imaging website.

For full competition terms and conditions, visit the Future Publishing website.

Image copyright Mark Smith

British wildlife photographers have a chance to win a cash prize of £5,000 and their work showcased in a national touring photography exhibition as the British Wildlife Photography Awards 2012 kick off.

With an overall prize fund worth £20,000, entries have now opened for the 2012 competition. Winners and commended entrants will have their work showcased in a national touring exhibition, as well as reproduced in a book published by AA Publishing.

The Awards’ 12 categories include Animal Portraits, Animal Behaviour, Urban Wildlife, Hidden Britain, Coast and Marine, Wild Woods, Wildlife in my Backyard, Habitat, Living Landscape, British Seasons, Documentary Series and Wildlife in HD Video.

Images may be entered by purchasing ‘credits’, which cost £5 each. Entry of a single image costs 2 credits, while 3 credits lets you enter up to 5 images and 4 credits up to 10 pictures. For a full breakdown of the fee structure visit the BWPA competitions website.

Now in its fourth year, the British Wildlife Photography Awards were established to recognise the talents of wildlife photographers of all nationalities practising in Britain, whilst at the same time highlighting the great wealth and diversity of Britain’s natural history.

Whether you shoot the entire building or just part of it, we’re looking for images that reveal the character of a building, rather than simply document its form. There’s more to architectural photography than shooting facades face-on – you could shoot across buildings, from above or below, or through other object in the nearby environment, such as parts of other buildings, trees or sculptures.

We’re looking for something original and inspired that truly stands out from the crowd.

The prize: Lowepro Flipside 400 AW

Each month we’re giving away an excellent Lowepro camera backpack worth up to £150 to the lucky winner of our Your Mission photo competition.

The Flipside 400 AW is a high-performance backpack with a unique rear-access compartment and padded waist belt, specifically designed for the wearer to be able to access gear while still wearing the bag. It also includes the patented All WeatherTM cover, adjustable dividers, and Hideaway Tripod MountTM system.

Enter

For your chance to win, simply upload your photo to our gallery in ‘This Month’s Issue – Issue 122′ category, and upload your images by 7 March 2012. The best three shots will be printed in Issue 124, which will go on sale 30 March 2012.

Here are some tips to give you a head start:

• Your vantage point is everything. Most buildings are shot from ground level in front of the building. Get up high if you can or go in close and shoot upwards. Explore the other sides of the building, as well as within if it’s a complex structure.
• Reflections on rivers and lakes can be effective, especially in night shots.
• Look for repeating patterns in details, or strong contrasts both in light and shade, or in form.
• Keep an eye on the sky behind the building, and ensure it doesn’t over-expose.

Samuel Aranda/Corbis Images/World Press Photo

The votes are in, and the World Press Photo of the Year 2011 award goes to Samuel Aranda from Spain.

Aranda, who was on assignment for The New York Times in Yemen, shot his image of a woman holding a wounded relative in her arms during clashes in Sanaa, Yemen, on 15 October 2011. The woman was inside a mosque being used as a field hospital by demonstrators who were clashing against the rule of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

Some 5,247 photographers from 124 countries entered the World Press Photo 2011 competition, now in its 55th year, submitting a staggering 101,254 pictures by the mid-January deadline.

The World Press Photo 2011 jury gave prizes in nine themed categories to 57 photographers of 24 nationalities, hailing from Afghanistan, Argentina, Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the USA.

Jury member Koyo Kouoh said of Aranda’s picture: “It is a photo that speaks for the entire region. It stands for Yemen, Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Syria, for all that happened in the Arab Spring. But it shows a private, intimate side of what went on. And it shows the role that women played, not only as care-givers, but as active people in the movement.”

Fellow World Press Photo 2011 jury member Aidan Sullivan added: “The winning photo shows a poignant, compassionate moment, the human consequence of an enormous event, an event that is still going on. We might never know who this woman is, cradling an injured relative, but together they become a living image of the courage of ordinary people that helped create an important chapter in the history of the Middle East.”

The judging is conducted at the World Press Photo office, where all entries are presented anonymously to the jury, who discuss and debates their merits over a period of two weeks. The jury operates independently of the World Press Photo organisation.

The World Press Photo contest is open to professional press photographers, photojournalists and documentary photographers.

The World Photography Organisation has revealed its shortlist for the 2012 Sony World Photography Awards.

Billed by organisers as the “global photographic event of the year,” the Sony World Photography Awards 2012 competition has recorded more than 112,000 entries from 171 countries, with the shortlisted images depicting a range of stories of extraordinary lives from around the world.

In the Professional competition, many of the images depict the major global events of 2011, such as the war in Libya, the European economic crisis and the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, while the Open competition covered an even wider gamut of subjects and genres.

Returning photographers from previous years, include 2010 Professional Landscape winner, Peter Franck (Germany); who this year is a finalist in three categories; 2011 Professional Contemporary Issues and Current Affairs winner, Javier Arcenillas (Spain); and Chan Kwok Hung (Hong Kong) whose stunningly dramatic image ‘Buffalo Race’ won the  Overall Open Competition in 2011.

As shortlisted photographers in the Sony World Photography Awards, each will have their work exhibited at an exhibition at London’s Somerset House to coincide with the award ceremony in April 2012.

The annual Sony World Photography Awards ceremony and gala dinner will take place on 26 April at the Hilton Hotel in London’s Park Lane.  The awards celebration will once again take place alongside World Photo, London, a month-long event full of guest speakers, workshops and other photographic events for photographers of all abilities.

The opening weekend of World Photo London will be held at Somerset House from 27 – 30 April with selected events including portfolio reviews, workshops, symposiums and the Sony World Photography Awards winners’ exhibitions, which continue through to 20 May 2012.

Open shortlisted photographers

In each category judges were able to select up to ten images.
Architecture

●    Babul Bhatt                                       India
●    Patrice Carré                                    France
●    Filippo Di Rosa                                  Italy
●    Fabrizio Intonti                                   Italy
●    Francisco Mendes                           Portugal
●    Rui Nunes                                          United Kingdom
●    Fulvio Pellegrini                                 Italy
●    José Ramón Montes                       Spain
●    Thai Son Huynh                                 Vietnam

Arts & Culture

●    Dovile Dagiene                                Lithuania
●    Levi Fanan                                         Brazil
●    Kushal Gangopadhyay                  India
●    Antonio Iubatti                                 Italy
●    Sanket K                                            India
●    Klaartje Lambrechts                        Belgium
●    Oliver Mezger                                   Germany
●    Tan Nono Rahardian                       Indonesia
●    Samanta Sollima                              Italy
●    Paul Störm                                         Australia

Enhanced

●    Alexandr Afonin                               Russian Federation
●    Sandra Cifo                                       United States
●    Paul Irving                                          United Kingdom
●    Milan Makarský                                Czech Republic
●    Frank Martin Eisele                           Germany
●    Rodolfo Mejías                                 Venezuela
●    Jochen Resch                                  Germany
●    Oren Shved                                      Israel
●    Victor Vargas Villafuerte                Canada
●    Antonios Vlachou                            Slovakia

Low Light

●    Elmar Akhmetov                              Kazakhstan
●    Edoardo Brotto                                Italy
●    Ignasi cunill                                        Spain
●    Teng Hin Khoo                                  Malaysia
●    Sergey Kochmak                             Russian Federation
●    Christoph Krüger                              Germany
●    Belentsova Natalia                          Russian Federation
●    Pansiri Pikunkaew                            Thailand
●    Derrick Woo                                      Hong Kong
●    Heng Zee Kek                                   Singapore

Nature & Wildlife

●    Nadav Bagim                                   Israel
●    Anita Erdmann                                Canada
●    Handri Fitrido                                     Indonesia
●    Felicitas Frei                                       Switzerland
●    Giovanni Frescura                           Italy
●    Peter Krejzl                                       Czech Republic
●    Chan Kwok Hung                             Hong Kong
●    William Lee                                        United States
●    Kuntal Paul                                        India
●    Petar Sabol                                       Croatia

Panoramic

●    Pramiga Aditya                                Indonesia
●    Ionut Hrenciuc                                  Romania
●    Istvan Nagy                                       Netherlands
●    Noel Plaszkó                                      Hungary
●    Matthew Post                                   Australia
●    James Rider                                      United Kingdom
●    Terry Soo                                            Australia
●    Ian Taylor                                           United Kingdom
●    steve Williams                                   United Kingdom
●    Denise Worden                                United States

People

●    Victoria Bolshemennik                    Israel
●    Tommy Braxton                                United Kingdom
●    Thomas Dymond                              United Kingdom
●    Mehmet Fatih Yaldiz                        Turkey
●    Ana Gregorič                                   Slovenia
●    Paul MacKinnon                               United Kingdom
●    Christine Pearl                                  United States
●    Fulvio Pellegrini                                 Italy
●    Zulkifli Thalib                                       Indonesia
●    Игорь Лобанов                                Russian Federation

Smile

●    Ricky Alexander                               Indonesia
●    Nguyen Duc Tri                                   Vietnam
●    Gerold Guggenbuehl                     Switzerland
●    Arnold Jumpay                                Philippines
●    Anom Manik Agung                       Indonesia
●    Kivera Mara                                      Réunion
●    Diana Mrazikova                              Slovakia
●    Meghann Prouse                             United States
●    Nick Redman                                    United Kingdom
●    Piotr Stasiuk                                       Poland

Split Second

●    Cemhan Biricik                                 United States
●    Tobias Bräuning                                Germany
●    Samuel Chan                                    China
●    Andrzej Chrobot                              Poland
●    Alessandro Falco                             Italy
●    Don Horne                                         Ireland
●    Johnny Joo                                       United States
●    Gustavo Magnavacca                  Argentina
●    Greg Parker                                      United Kingdom
●    Peter Prazenka                                 Slovakia

Travel

●    Krzysztof Browko                              Poland
●    Krzysztof Browko                                  Poland
●    Marco Lachmann-Anke               Germany
●    John Lai Teck Kee                           Malaysia
●    Carlos Macedonio                          Brazil
●    N S Ng                                                Singapore
●    Keith Pace                                        Malta
●    Suprijanto Suprijanto                       Indonesia
●    George Turnbull                               United Kingdom
●    Malte Wittmann                               Germany

Professional shortlisted photographers

PHOTOJOURNALISM & DOCUMENTARY
Current Affairs

Finalists:
●    Fernando Alfonso Brito Lizárraga         Mexico
(El Debate de Culiacan)
●    Rémi Ochlik (IP3 Press)                France

●    Donald Weber (VII PHOTO)            Canada

Shortlisted:
●    Javier Arcenillas                 Spain
●    Fabio Bucciarelli                Italy
●    Pietro Masturzo                 Italy
●    Giorgos Moutafis                 Greece
●    Goran Tomasevic                 United Kingdom

Contemporary Issues

Finalists:
●    Kasia Bielska                     Poland
●    Alessandro Grassani                 Italy
●    Gustavo Jononovich                 Argentina

Shortlisted:
●    Francesco Giusti                 Italy
●    Sebastian Liste                 Spain
●    Ivor Prickett                     Ireland
●    Jose Luis Rodriguez Maldonado         Columbia
●    Natasha Shulte                 Ukraine
●    Anastasia Taylor-Lind                 United Kingdom
●    Donald Weber (VII PHOTO)            Canada

People

Finalists:
●    Alejandro Cartagena                 Mexico
●    Maja Daniels                     Sweden
●    Simon Norfolk                    United Kingdom

Shortlisted:
●    Philippe Leroux                 France
●    Kerry Mansfield                 United States
●    Francesca Oggiano                 Italy
●    Huage Shang                     China
●    Salvi Danés Vernedas                Spain

Sport

Finalists:
●    Pawel Kopczynski (Thomson Reuters)        Polish
●    Andrew McConnell                 Ireland
●    Palmer + Pawel                 United Kingdom

Shortlisted:
●    Delfosse Colin                     Belgium
●    Alvaro Deprit                     Italy
●    Mikhail Domozhilov                 Russian Federation
●    Adam Pretty                     Australia
●     Scott Robin Barbour                 New Zealand
●    Robin Utrecht                    Netherlands

Nature & Wildlife

Finalists:
·    David Chancellor (Institute)            United Kingdom
·    Jacek Kusz                    Poland
·    Palani Mohan                    India

Shortlisted:
·    Salil Bera                    India
·    Terence du Fresne                Switzerland
·    Barbara Leven                    United States
·    Suren Manvelyan                Armenia
·    Tapash Paul                    Bangladesh

Arts and Culture
Finalists:
●    Rob Hornstra                     Netherlands
●    Anastasia Taylor-Lind                 United Kingdom
●    Mattia Vacca                     Italy

Shortlisted:
●    Javier Arcenillas                 Spain
●    Jacek Swierczynski                Poland
●    Yannick Cormier                 France
●    Alvaro Deprit                     Italy
●    Susana Girón                    Spain
●    Davide Monteleone                 Italy
●    Andrea Santolaya                Spain

COMMERCIAL

Campaign
Finalists:
●    Javier Arcenillas                 Spain
●    Peter Franck (Büro stoltenhoff)            Germany
●    Laura Pannack                 United Kingdom

Shortlisted:
●    Michael Blann                     United Kingdom
●    Felipe Cantillana                 Chile
●    Jan von Holleben                 Germany
●    Miguel Navarro                 United Kingdom
●    Michelle Siu                     Canada
●    Roberto Soares-Gomes             Brazil
●    Daniele Testa                     Italy

Travel
Finalists:
●    Jan Brykczynski                 Poland
●    Luis Henry Agudelo Cano             Colombia
●    Peter Franck                    Germany

Shortlisted:
●    Giancarlo Ceraudo                 Italy
●    Andrea Hamilton                 United Kingdom
●    Cristina De Middel                 Spain
●    Yurian Quintanas Nobel             Spain
●    Gianluca Pulcini                 Italy
●    Lisa Wiltse                     United States

Fashion
Finalists:
●    Peter Franck                    Germany
●    Elizaveta Porodina                 Germany
●    Jayden Tang                     United Kingdom

Shortlisted:
●    Michelle Beatty                 United Kingdom
●    Susi Belianska                     Italy
●    Romano Decker Dejan Kutic            Croatia
●    Filippo Del Vita                 Italy
●    Alice Pavesi                    Italy
●    Dasha Ketsko                     Ukraine
●    Frauke Thielking                 Germany

FINE ART

Architecture
Finalists:
●    Igor Chirikov                     Russian Federation
●    David Ibernón Boria                Spain
●    Simon Norfolk                    United Kingdom

Shortlisted:
●    Robin Broderick                 Canada
●    Riccardo Budini                 Italy
●    Tamas Bujnovszky                 Hungary
●    Alejandro Cartagena                 Mexico
●    Paula Gortazar                 United Kingdom
●    David de Jong                 Netherlands
●    Michael Joseph                 United States

Portraiture
Finalists:
●    Lei Liu                         China
●    Paolo Marchetti                 Italy
●    Irina Werning                     Argentina

Shortlisted:
●    Gwenn Dubourthoumieu             The Democratic Republic of Congo
●    Lavinia Parlamenti                 Italy
●    Johann Rousselot                 France
●    Javier Arcenillas                Spain
●    George Mayer                    Russian Federation

Landscape
Finalists    :
●    Rona Chang                    United States
●    Lee Chee Wai                     Malaysia
●    Mitch Dobrowner                 United States

Shortlisted:
●    Regis Boileau                    France
●    Ximena Etchart                 Argentina
●    Jeroen Hofman                 Netherlands
●    Zhang Kechun                 China
●    Matthias H. Risse                 Germany
●    Chaoliang Shen                 Taiwan, Province of China
●    Stephen Wilkes                United States

Still Life
Finalists:
●    Renan Cepeda                 Brazil
●    Rena Effendi (INSTITUTE)                Azerbaijan
●    Helen Thompson                 United Kingdom

Shortlisted:
●    Michal Cole                     United Kingdom
●    Peter Franck                    Germany
●    Martina Geccelli                 United Kingdom
●    Miri Mor                     Israel
●    Song Nian Ang                 Singapore
●    Gicheol Shin                     Republic of Korea

Conceptual
Finalists:
●    Manuel Geerinck                Belgium
●    Luis Mallo                     United States
●    Cristina De Middel                 Spain

Shortlisted:
●    Carlo D’Orta                     Italy
●    Photographer Hal                 Japan
●    Giuseppe Parisi                 Italy
●    Carlos Henrique Reinesch             Brazil
●    Sanne Maloe Slecht                 Netherlands
●    Frauke Thielking                 Germany
●    Patricia van de Camp             Netherlands

Youth shortlisted photographers

Culture

·    Hanne Grannestad                Norway
·    Lam Ka Ho                    Hong Kong
·    Sahil Lodha                    India
·    Merijn Mulder                    Netherlands
·    Carolina Paltrinieri                 Italy
·    Adrian Pelegrin  Bonet                Spain
·    Kolyaskin Sergey                Russian Federation
·    Benedek Varga                Hungary

Environment

·    Alla Aliokhina                    Ukraine
·    Kolyaskin Sergey                Russian Federation
·    Thamyres Matarozzi                Brazil
·    Adrian Pelegrin Bonet                   Spain
·    Bernard Pieterse                South Africa
·    Imanuel Thallinger                Austria
·    Kazi Sudipto                    Bangladesh
·    Kseniya Sovenko                United States

Portraits

·    Tertious Alio                    Russian Federation
·    Hadi Asgari                    Iran
·    Lidia K                        United Kingdom
·    Darya Kasyanova                Russian Federation
·    Samujjwal Sahu                India
·    Karina Sembe                    Ukraine
·    Kolyaskin Sergey                Russian Federation
·    Felicia Simion                    Romania
·    Marina Tkhorzhevskaya             Russian Federation
·    Berta Vicente                    Spain