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Gregory's Gone
by Horst Kistner


Edward Hopper (The nighthawk) meets Gregory Crewdson, one of my favourite photographers. Something has happened -- an open-ended story.

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Honeymoon in Finland #1
by Roddy Macinnes


Honeymoon in Finland explores three significant relationships: Nina Weiste, Photography, and intimacy. The project is based on found photographs taken by a North Dakota woman in 1917 (Nina Weiste). I married Nina and photography in a small church in South Dakota. This summer (202...

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Highly commended

Als Ich Ein Kleiner Junge War
by Horst Kistner


Inscenated in my studio. Its looks like a dutch painting with the chickens. A memory to my childhood as i started with photography.

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Highly commended

Burnout
by Giovanna Viola


It has been an intense couple of years. I wanted to recreate that peaceful chaos in this image, if that makes any sense. There is something about crows that gives me peace, so they are present in many of my images as well as muted colors. I love the colors of dawn and dusk.

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Look at Myself in the Mirror
by Hardijanto Budiman


I really love Surreal world! I use photography as a medium to express my imagination into pictures. This picture tells about how people react in various different ways to show their gesture and emotion when they play the Game.

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Commended

Le Temp Perdu
by Horst Kistner


Also an inspiration of Edward Hopper. Le temp perdu, the lost time. She is waiting for somebody; it is boring, so she built a house of burned toasts. Art doesn't have to make sense.

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Bird Man
by Priyesh Kumar


This shot was taken in winter: a man was crossing the bridge at the same time when the birds were passing above him. I felt this scene dramatic so I made this shot.

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The Mountain in Silence
by Junwu Yang


A tower stands high on a mountain, lonely and ethereal, and the moon in the sky lays a mysterious atmosphere on the picture, which embodies the Zen beauty of the Eastern aesthetics.

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A Tale of Two Masters
by Marta Kolodziejczyk


A tribute to my two masters and inspirations bound together. One of them was a genius of puzzles, the other is a titan of stories. The first used a brush and canvas, while the second uses a camera. Special thanks to Damian Drewniak, the second master from this tale, whom I had th...

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Hide and I Will Find You
by Hardijanto Budiman


This picture is a Surreal Metaphor, an Illustration about Human's mind just like a Playground! A place where we can have so much fun to play with our Imagination, our Ideas, our Inspirations and our Creativity!

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Startle
by Du Yi


This photo is from an earlier photo series called “Story of Suzhou City,” photographed in Puyuan garden in Suzhou and it is inspired by “the peony pavilion” Kunqu, a story about the ethics of love told in Kunqu, the local opera in Suzhou area. It is envisioned that in the ancien...

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Welcome to the Machine
by Philip Mckay


Influenced from the "Wish you were here " album by Pink Floyd. A lot of my art is influenced by Storm Thorgerson who created the "Wish you were here" album.

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Chinese Colors
by Du Yi


The image is for an advertisement campaign of hair dryer made by a home appliance brand called Lexy in China. It is intended to create the aesthetic of Chinese style to meet the mainstream demand by using traditional Chinese elements such as opera, fan, combined with modern fashi...

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Ms. Tudee
by Anthony Barlan


Everything that you see here is created right inside the camera, with minimal contrast adjustment & cropping to satisfy my photographic expression of beauty. Lipstick & make-up mirror here signifies what beauty is in two-dimensional world. Those two elements and its unique connec...

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Rhapsody in White
by Hardijanto Budiman


This Picture is an Imaginary Story, Imagine if we live in the World without colors! This concept dealing with contradiction in my mind and it blurs the border between fantasy & reality.

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