A woman covered in mud from the mud bath jumping into the lake.
Category: Smile
Competition: Open
Country: Turkey
Holi is one of the major festivals of India and is the most vibrant of all. The festival is celebrated across the four corners of India. Holi celebrates the arrival of spring, a season of joy and hope.
Category: Smile
Competition: Open
Country: India
Homeless children in Chittagong, Bangladesh.
Category: Split Second
Competition: Open
Country: Bangladesh
A baby Orang Utan peeking out from his mother's embrace.
Category: Nature & Wildlife
Competition: Open
Country: Singapore
Gold Fields Abangares miners in the province of Guanacaste in Costa Rica.
Category: People
Competition: Open
Country: Costa Rica
That's Dance, Sunward and Zeybeks.
Category: Nature & Wildlife
Competition: Open
Country: Cyprus
October beer festival is one of the biggest events in Munich. You can feel the atmosphere of happiness by the decoration of the booth.
Category: Arts & Culture
Competition: Open
Country: China
Painting the body is one of the great pleasures of this tribe. The expanse of land where this tribe lives is amazing. Several times a day they travel down to the Omo River to bring up water.
Category: People
Competition: Open
Country: United States
Vakil Bath is a very popular historical site located in Shiraz, Iran. Nasir Al-Mulk is a mosque with lots of artworks and stained glass.
Category: Panoramic
Competition: Open
Country: Iran, Islamic Republic of
In your youth, nothing can stop you from enjoying time with your friends. You may grow up and forget the names, but you'll always remember the moments, the time on the dock with your friends during a surprise shower.
Category: Low light
Competition: Open
Country: United States
The Greenwich foot tunnel in London.
Category: Architecture
Competition: Professional
Country: United Kingdom
A hunter rests on the plains in western Mongolia with his eagle.
Category: Travel
Competition: Open
Country: United Kingdom
The Guča trumpet festival in Serbia.
Category: Arts & Culture
Competition: Open
Country: Serbia
The pilgrims and devotees of the Maha Kumbh Mela - the largest spiritual gathering on the planet, held every 12 years.
Category: Travel
Competition: Open
Country: Germany
Emotional outpouring of a bride.
Category: Split Second
Competition: Open
Country: Taiwan
Picture is taken In Shanghai city and focuses on living places and the way we deal with public space.
Category: Landscape
Competition: Professional
Country: Netherlands
These images are from a personal project on couples who belong to the mod scene, a subculture that originated in Britain in the late fifties and became very popular during the sixties. It is quite difficult to pin down what lies at the heart of this movement as it has evolved in many different ways during the years, but all mods share a passion for everything related to the fifties and the sixties, especially the clothes and the music.
Category: Portraiture
Competition: Professional
Country: United Kingdom
'Sparkle, baby' explores girl culture in Australia within the phenomena of beauty pageants, particularly those directed at the young. Through documenting child pageants, I seek to understand if participating in these events increases the pressure on young girls to conform to an idealised view of what it means to be female or rather, is it a celebration of girlhood?
Category: Arts & Culture
Competition: Professional
Country: Australia
This Christ‐like image shows a bare‐chested son resting near his mother. The son, by his nudity, looks as fragile as he was on the day of his birth. The mother seems fulfilled by the presence of her son.
Category: People
Competition: Professional
Country: France
This image was taken in the southern and central parts of Iceland.
Category: Landscape
Competition: Professional
Country: Greece
The criminal power of the Camorra in the Forcella neighborhood, Naples dates back to the late 70s. This is the biggest area in Europe for drug selling.
Category: Current Affairs
Competition: Professional
Country: Italy
Celebrities portraits taken in Madame Tusseaud's museum.
Category: Portraiture
Competition: Professional
Country: Italy
Neighbours is a series of typical Belgian double houses. Every single building is an expression of individuality.
Category: Architecture
Competition: Professional
Country: Belgium
Reports state that 1130 workers died and nearly 2500 were rescued alive after the eight‐story building Rana Plaza that housed mostly garment factories collapsed on 24 April 2013 in Bangladesh.
Category: Current Affairs
Competition: Professional
Country: Bangladesh
Vantage point over a very harsh winter in Poland. Colourful skiers against a monochrome landscape.
Category: Landscape
Competition: Professional
Country: Poland
Category: Still Life
Competition: Professional
Country: Germany
Every year people in Bangladesh are disfigured beyond recognition by acid attacks. The victims are literally scarred for life.
Category: Portraiture
Competition: Professional
Country: Denmark
Destiny Pierman, 13 collects belongings from the damaged bedroom of her home in Moore, OK following a massive EF5 tornado in May 2013. She and her mother feared that their home would be leveled but were relieved to find the house damaged, but still standing. Destiny's epilepsy medication, the family's primary concern, was right where they had left it.
Category: Current Affairs
Competition: Professional
Country: United States
The Fighter, The Father is the story of Jorge Herrera's life. Jorge fled from his abusive father and a Chilean dictatorship when he was 9, and later ended up in jail. He suffered memory loss and injuries as a result of training his body too hard. At the age of 35 years Jorge Herrera has started to recreate his own life.
Category: Sport
Competition: Professional
Country: Denmark
The world as seen from the outside. An onlooker observing daily actions from the outside.
Category: Conceptual
Competition: Professional
Country: Italy
The series "Italy" was taken at the breath taking views of Biella area, where the photographer's camera is penetrating undirected intimates moments.
Category: Travel
Competition: Professional
Country: Israel
Wet Dog is a series of portraits of dogs caught mid‐bath. The dogs are photographed at a vulnerable moment, half a second before they shake the water off their fur. Sophie's pictures capture their character and, in some cases, recognizable emotions (like annoyance, misery or vengefulness).
Category: Portraiture
Competition: Professional
Country: United States
By overlapping a historical location with an old image of that exact place, the photographer questions the way we treat our history and the fast changing scenery of today.
Category: Architecture
Competition: Professional
Country: Korea
An old Hindu woman sits and prays to God in front of Shri Shri Lokanath Brahmachar Ashram temple during the Rakher Upobash at Barodi, Narayangonj. Lokenath Brahmachari who is called Baba Lokenath was an 18th Century Hindu saint and philosopher in Bengal. Hindu devotees fast and pray in earnest to the gods for their favours during the ritual.
Category: Arts & Culture
Competition: Professional
Country: Bangladesh
Nightlife clubbing scene.
Category: People
Competition: Professional
Country: Italy
Black & white image taken at Svalbard.
Category: Travel
Competition: Professional
Country: Norway
Category: Sport
Competition: Professional
Country: China
'Big Cat, Little Cat' is an advertising campaign for Whiskas cat food.
Category: Campaign
Competition: Professional
Country: United Kingdom