Best Picture of the month
January 2021
Photographers : Subrata kumer, Ana Batrićević, Ramzia Jawara, Briarwood Bohemian, Iness Rychlik
 United States of America New York City I took this photo in 2017, while walking through the Upper East Side of Manhattan. It was rainy and gloomy that day. Playing in the sidewalk puddles, I came across some ordinary apartment buildings. Standing back to look at them, their symmetry grabbed my eye and I began shooting photos; they were a... |
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 Serbia Belgrade The photograph “Crossing 1” was taken on 19.02.2020. at the railway station in the city of Sremska Mitrovica, located in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, in the Northern part of Serbia. The photograph shows an elderly lady from one of the local villages waiting for the train to pass so that she... |
 Bangladesh Sirajgonj Shadow of life I was born into a poor family where life means war. We have to fight for survival. Where love is worthless ,Art where luxury only . I am surprised when I look at my reflection. Everyone knows I'm successful today. But no one wants to hear the story behind this success. So I look at my... |
 United Kingdom Hove 'WHAT IS MINE?' Colonisation of Body, Mind and Culture.
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Best Picture of the month
December 2020
Photographers : Michael Eure, Agustin Reyes Seidler, Sander Vos, NTTS (notimetosleep), Nathan Cole
 Mexico Valle de bravo These photos are part of my series "Mud" ,beauty is everywhere, framing it well is a challenging goal. When one tries to bring life to a frame, suddenly the expectations are elevated, but we do our best. Life’s a Journey.
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 Canada Toronto I had just arrived a few days before at my artist residency in rural India, near a small village called Andore in Rajasthan. I was there to photograph and identify wildlife as reference material for my scratchboard portraits. I had acquainted myself with the surrounding farms and the pathways t... |
 United States of America Homestead As quarantine went on I'm sure all of us felt an urge to find value in the simpler things in life, those things we would take for granted. I began to find value, both artistically and emotionally, in the simple life the my dog Jack lives every day. While every being has their trials and tribulations... |
 United Kingdom London Having never touched a roadbike before, Joseph decided to take up the exercise bike and cycle 840 miles from London to St.Tropez in France (virtually) during the lockdown. He broadcast his journey live on Instagram, with a significant following building up during the tour, he eventually raised £30.0... |
 United Kingdom London UNITED, 2020,these self-portraits photography is a celebration to diversity. Yes we are black and yes we are white. Even if we are both so different, born on opposite sides of the planet, we both started from one single cell. This is a pretty simple statement that NO ONE should ever forge... |
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Best Picture of the month
October 2020
Photographers : Viviana Dal Lago, chiara de maria, NEERAJ SHARMA, Morgan Markey, Angelo
 United States of America West Palm Beach We are children playing adult, wandering through the fog, casting illusions of grandeur and promises of success beyond the periphery. Perhaps it is what goads us on, a flicker in the fade.
My name is Arnauld D'Angelo Sylvain, and I am a painter. This work is a collection of photographs I've t... |
 Italy Carpi As an oyster to the shell we are tied to our bodies Plato wrote, so the body of the woman is tied to an indelible collective imagination and in the same way I am tied to my body and theirs.
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 India MOHALI "Mothergoddess" River of Aspiration
Story is about relationship between human beings and river Ganga worshiped by millions of people around the globe.A spiritual relationship with a strong human desire to achieve eternal peace, prosperity,spiritual uplift,salvation,healing and so on and so forth.... |
 Italy Genova Panic attack.
Analogic photography. Double exposure. Kiev 88. Ilford HP5 400
This photographic series was made during a personal search for the expression of my discomfort.
I was never able to put into words what I felt (still feel) with my panic attacks, but one evening, after developing the... |
 United Kingdom Morgan Markey The attached series, "ISOLA", is a dreamy sequence of photographs depicting scenes of Filicudi, an island that sits outside of Sicily and is almost always deserted (only 235 people living on the island) besides the few visitors that come each Summer. Like many volcanic isla... |
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Female
October 2020
Artists : Ethel Lilienfeld, Anica Archip, Georgie White Winter, Szofi Karolyfi, Morgan Markey
 Belgium Brussels Ethel Lilienfeld's work, which questions notions of identity, femininity and intergenerational family connectivity, is shown through an autobiographical lens. The body occupies an important place in most of the depictions arranged by the artist. While she uses photography, sound installation or vide... |
 United Kingdom London 'Women of the Market' is a photo-essay that documents the daily lives of the women that run the Vietnamese marketplace. I wanted to highlight the grit, strength and beauty of the women that provide for their families, while simultaneously working full time at the m... |
 United Kingdom Hereford Artist Statement ‘Old Wives’ Tales Pregnancy Myth’
This series is a tongue in cheek look at Old Wives’ Tales and when I became pregnant the second time I decided I wanted to play with the idea of myths. Often regarded as irrational, illogical and absurd stories that over the passing of time have... |
 United States of America Brooklyn I'm uncomfortable being photographed and have been uncomfortable exposing a lot of skin - even at the beach. Like most females growing up in a big city, the unsolicited and lewd attention, that began in my pre-teen years, made me guarded, feeling ashamed of my body. Now, as a mature woman I've been... |
 Norway Oslo Throughout history women has been objectified and mistreated. In the last century things started to change rapidly for the better. This image of being a woman became ever more complex if possible. The focus I’ve had in this project was the female role in the 21st century, my personal dilemma and the... |
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Female Special Award
October 2020
Artists : Stéphanie Barbetta, Cristina Cabrita, Yuan Tang, Samira Sabulis, Claudia Cantarini
 Portugal Lisboa “The feminine nature is the protagonist of Cristina Cabrita's canvases, precisely because the woman has that particular sensitivity that can guide her and lead her to observe reality through the softness of the nuances, and it is perhaps by virtue of that same sensitivity that she bends to find the... |
 United Kingdom London Photography Project about Obsession, Pleasure and Femininity.
My aim is to create a scene that captures or creates an isolated moment of pleasure
These scenes are constructed through an exaggerated, surreal and bizarre performance.
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 Switzerland Geneva The substance brute project focuses on what I call a "Traum-a", a place between the dream (Traum in german) and the trauma.
Through unrefined poetry and installations, Stéphanie Barbetta questions genders as the result of social pressure.
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 United States of America New York City After extensively exploring digital photography and video. From 2018, Yuan has begun to examine analog photography again – produce an ongoing diary series of private scenes - "Vague." She uses a medium format camera - Mamiya C330 twin lens to capture her idea. Each photo produced like a small intima... |
 United States of America Washington DC My project involves expressive art therapy to help women heal from traumatic experiences, accept transitional periods in their lives and further their emotional, cognitive, and social integration through music, photography and movement. I want my work to speak the desired language of women empo... |
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Female
September 2020
Artists : Aljohara, Thea Lång, Carla Pohl, Diane Bush, Lee Musgrave
 Saudi Arabia Jeddah Series /pəˈfɔːm(ə)ns/: a silent story told, a statement, a performance.
To lessen misunderstandings in this sensitive subject, let’s invoke the book of words, for, beyond words’ immediate denotations, they have connotative powers.
The Process:
Performance (Oxford Dictionary Online): 1. ‘An... |
 Norway Trondheim A Woman Who
is a series of close ups of my body. Where stretch marks, stomach rolls, marks after underwear and body hair, which are seen as the ugly part of the body, become something beautiful. These series of self portraits focus on what is like to be a woman today, being my own muse and be com... |
 Germany Berlin Photography is transformation - the connection between yesterday and today, now and tomorrow. It heals the past and shows the moment in the now. It connects people and nature, connects woman and man, female and male. These are the basic principles of my work and I apply them to every assignment and... |
 United States of America Las Vegas I am a mature female artist, who uses photography, yarn, and anything that solves the visual challenges I face. During Covid -19 isolation, I have had time to look back at a long carreer in the visual arts, and continue to create new works, while valueing my 50 year output.
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 United States of America Portland When I first viewed the painting L'Origine du monde I was amazed that it was dated 1866. I not only admired the artist for his daring to paint such a subject in such an erotic pose, but even more so for the title he assigned the image for The Origin of the World epitomizes how I too feel about the s... |
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Female
August 2020
Artists : Iness Rychlik, Brian Cann, Chloe Massey, Nicola Hockley, Natalia Almonte
 United Kingdom Norwich I am an Interdisciplinary artist and designer. My practice is conceptual and wide ranging, often responding to a site, a situation or a place. Research is central to my creative process and I work across, constructed and printed textiles, photography, typography and printmaking. My practice is not r... |
 United Kingdom London I am a self-portrait photographer, who specializes in conceptual art. Although greatly influenced by historical drama, my work is deeply personal and symbolic in nature. I suffer from a hyper-sensitive skin condition. As a teenager, I would often attempt to cover it up; I resented being asked if I h... |
 United Kingdom Frome My love of pictures is deeply entwined with a love of people and is always an ode to great women. Throughout my work portraits of mothers, grandmothers and young women are intrinsic, for it is their stories I wish to tell, beautifully. This project is entitled Heroine, ‘A woman of distinguished cour... |
 Germany Waldenbuch Blue chair figure study, from the series Alex and the blue chair, exploring body form and light in the interplay between a female model (Alex) and a shabby blue chair
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 United States of America New York Natalia Almonte was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She holds both an MFA in Fine Arts from Parsons and an MA in Art History and the Art Market: Modern and Contemporary Art from Christie’s Education. While at Christie’s, Almonte received the Alumni Association Award for Contemporary Art Co... |
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Best Picture of the month
August 2020
Photographers : roberta ruocco, Nissan Leviathan, Jana Garvanlieva, Janki Dodiya, Victoria Ruiz
 United States of America New York Life has a way of transforming us into something we no longer recognize. Photography has been fundamental in
peeling back the layers of my life and reconnecting me with my subconsciousness. The intention of my work is to
eliminate all that is superfluous and engage mindfulness. My images are m... |
 North Macedonia, Republic of Skopje Humans are animals - Animals are human. We swam and we crawled, we stood up and hunted, we fought and strived, we grew and developed, we raised thoughts and memories and fantasies, we became knowledgeable and sophisticated, we became self-sufficient, self-centered and self-obsessed, we became... |
 United States of America Miami Victoria Ruiz is a multidisciplinary artist that works across an array of mediums that aid her in challenging and questioning the status quo. Her creative journey was sparked through her strong sense and belief in activism. Through her work, she is able to tell a story by engulfing you in a magnetic... |
 Germany Braunschweig The Night Beauties are a series of photographs of the flora at the night time. Plants, trees and floral landscapes are the most challenging and my favourite night time subjects. Capturing the low light on the plants and flowers sometimes from the street light, a window or the moon, creates... |
 Israel and the Occupied Territories Givataiym As a computer graphics artist I work in front of my computers’ screens, employing a variety of 2D and 3D digital graphics programs as my brushes, my palettes of paints as well as my cameras, with which I create my artworks. These are usually about fantastic realities, as if to follow Valerio Adami’s... |
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Female
July 2020
Artists : ANNA LAURA FESTA, Jackie Knapp, Ruocong Ma, Bianca Ceriani, Juliette Wayenberg, ZOSIA
 United Kingdom London This picture represent to me a very delicate moment in a woman life: the pre-adolescence. The way Paola is looking at the camera makes me think that she is growing in self-awarness while her shy, younger sister looking at the floor reminds me of the difficulty of accepting that self.... |
 United States of America Berkeley The female body is nothing short of a miracle, stronger than any of us were taught to think about ourselves. During the pandemic deep into the shelter in place order, I got to witness a home birth. These images were inspired by the water birth, the beauty of both the before and after. As the po... |
 Italy roma “Whenever the earth is covered with the fragrant, multi-colored flowers of spring, then from the thick darkness you will rise again, a marvelous prodigy for mortal men and gods.
Homeric hymn to Demeter, vv. 401 – 403
Kore daughter of Demeter and Zeus spends half of the year underground in the... |
 Australia Brisbane Zosia Zoltkowski is an interdisciplinary Polish, first generation Australian artist; researching, creating and collaborating across mediums of painting, performance, installation, sculpture and video. Her site-specific executions aim to create a synergistic relationship between viewer, per... |
 United Kingdom London Transdisciplinary artist Ruocong Ma examines the contradiction and correlation of spiritual strength, human body, sexual representation, and feminism in our society, working on oil painting, performance, and sculpture. Ruocong's figurative women portrait painting is primarily concerned with celebrat... |
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Special Award
July 2020
Artists : Daniela Mastronardi, Anna Filatova, Jessica Ethington, Rosie Lonsdale,Gwen Datyner
 Netherlands Leeuwarden These are the photos of my mom. Her life turned 360 when she got 50. She got divorced after 30 years of marriage, moved to another city 5000 km away from her hometown where she has spent all her life, changed jobs, changed people around, bought a funky orange bicycle. At that moment of her life she... |
 United States of America Provo Look in the mirror and what do you see? I saw flaws. I saw blemishes in my skin. I saw parts of my body I wish would disappear.
As many people so often do, I struggled with my own self image and how the rest of the world looked at me. I wondered if they saw my insecurities. I didn’t want to... |
 Italy Cesena The image of woman has always been defined by symbology and stereotypes which despite all the fights and the achievements are still present in the contemporary society.
The search of a proper and collective identity guides this project, not to give us answers but to leave us with old and new ques... |
 United Kingdom MAIDSTONE Normally, my work consists of documenting other people, light underwater or just capturing mundane life. However, while at home in isloation, it made me try other ways of creating work. It forced me to photograph myself when I don't normally like to and I found it to be a very valuable exp... |
 United Kingdom Acton “50% of women say they always or often feel unsafe walking alone at night. 61% of women regularly take steps to avoid being sexually assaulted (YouGov, Mar 2019)” For women living in any city, travelling home late at night, whether after a late-night shift or night out, can be a daunting task and le... |
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Best Picture of the month
July 2020
Photographers : Alexandre Desane, Stéphanie Barbetta, Jiang Feng, Yilin Wong, Taylor Franz
 United States of America Columbus Documenting Skate Date, a Central Ohio collective, creating safe spaces for gals, trans, and non-binary folks to skate together.
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 United Kingdom London I'm originally from Hong Kong. Having lived in multiple countries from a young age, I have come across people from all walks of life. These experiences, both good and bad, have influenced her culturally and personally. My work revolves around travel, diasporas, and the human condition. I combine my... |
 France Paris Crépus is an on-going photo series on Black hair of Black people in France. I’ve started this series back in 2019, everything began with a global project on Racism I'm still working on, with different lines of research.
A short film I've directed called "The Orange child", it deals with the vision... |
 Taiwan New Taipei City This series juxtaposes the torn and dirty USian flag with the naked bodies of all genders, races, sexuality, nationality, and cultural backgrounds to capture their vulnerability, emotions, and strength, critiquing the United States as the dreamland and shelter for all humans. The U.S. was alleg... |
 Switzerland Geneva the substance brute project captures unrefined poetry in ordinary places and through daily objects
do more with less conception of art
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Best Picture of the month
June 2020
Photographers : Emily LaRoche, Ben Malcolmson, Coco Johnson, Christy, Lo Lok Lam, SARA CAMPORESI
 China - Hong Kong / Macau Hong Kong The idea of Unpeeling started with one of the artist’s grandma’s after dinner habits - peeling oranges and share them with her family. The act of peeling oranges symbolizes sharing, connecting and healing. Peeling the orange reveal the vulnerable center, and metaphorically this action exposes the ar... |
 Italy FORLI A young photographer who has always had a passion for art, for some time she has combined this interest with the spontaneity of the photographic storytelling, conceived not only as a classic account of experiences, but as a real story that with more personal and creative shots conveys the secret cha... |
 United Kingdom Belfast Reflecting upon a personal sense of identity within the Northern Irish landscape. Influenced by layers of historic conflict prominent within the region. The body of work 'Murmur' delves into the connection of migration and selfhood, looking at the subtle changing relationship within one's identity a... |
 United States of America San Francisco There's always tension between our private and our public presence. I explore where these intersect in everyday life. I am interested in the humor that comes from the interconnection and isolation between people as they move throughout their day, as well as the transcendent moments that arise in res... |
 United States of America Pawtucket As an emphasis was put on making your own protective mask at home during the pandemic, I began sewing fabric breasts into a protective helmet or shield. Once completed, I decided to push the concept further by making a protective body suit. In isolation, I used myself as a model. I began exploring t... |
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Best Picture of the month
May 2020
Photographers : Frank Edwards, vicki couchman, Jasmine De Silva, Hólmar Hólm, Stefanie Schmid Rincon
 United Kingdom London As the UK struggles with Lockdown fatigue during the Covid19 crisis, couples and friends escape their homes to enjoy the warm weather and exercise. Swimmers respect the social distancing rules, cooling off in the River Lea, Hackney , London UK. So to get this shot I went out armed with my 70-200mm l... |
 United Kingdom London Several weeks before the lockdown we had hiked up the Old Man of Storr on the Isle of Skye, to capture the sunrise. It was a very cold Feb morning we had left the car park in the dark when we reached the old man. Having taken shots of the Old man I turned around and this shot was directly behind me.... |
 United Kingdom London The focus of Crystal Clean, is to explore the idea that seemingly absolute perfection is a prison and entrapment we unknowingly encase ourselves in.
This crystal shell she lives in is striking and audacious, not easy to miss. It acts as a label slapped across her body to be stared at,... |
 Germany Berlin Since this Pandemic has taken over, and we need to stay home for health and safety matters. The work life of most has changed. Home office for some, or no official office at all for others (Freelancers or artists) Myself as a photographer who works mainly on Events and Performance Music photography... |
 Iceland Hafnarfjörður Exploring the boundaries of gender and gendered expression, these photographs draw on the art of drag and female illusion, combining or conflating them with more traditionally masculine styles. The photographs also allude to queer culture and counterculture, as viewed through a mostly camp... |
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