Phottle blog: Nonprofessional Photographer of the Year: Editorial

Nonprofessional Photographer of the Year: Editorial - IPA 2007

The Pilsner Urquell International Photography Awards Competition is the world's most prestigious photography contest for both professional and amateur photographers. They accept prints, slides and digital photos in Advertising, Architecture, Book, Editorial, Fine Art, Nature, People and Special categories.

Nonprofessional Photographer of the Year: Advertising, Architecture, Deeper Perspective.

see also: International Photography Awards (IPA) 2007 Professional Photographers of the Year Section:
- Advertising;
- Architecture;
- Books;
- Editorial;
- Fine Art;
- Nature;
- People;
- Special;

Feature Story

LARRY LOUIE - 1st place - Title: Woman of Tibet - EDMONTON, CA

ROSEMARY KERKAY - 2nd place - entry 37265 - Title: Beyond Repair - ST. PAUL, US
This series depicts the grim situation after Hurricane Katrina hit the coastline of southern Mississippi a year after the storm. This project is my attempt at showing not only the destruction of Hurricane Katrina, but also the lack of aid toward the region and the painfully slow, if not stagnant, recovery process.

KEIKO HIROMI - 3rd place - entry 36908 - Title: Monadnock Street - DORCHESTER, US

Other

LUNG LIU - 1st place - Title: The Downtown Eastside #3 - SURREY, CA
This is a series of portraits of the Vancouver downtown eastside, Canada’s poorest neighbourhood. They were taken mainly in the fall of 2006 and are intended to be a portrait of the community itself. Throughout the years, this neighbourhood has suffered from many challenges which include, but are not limited to, drug addiction, poverty, diseases such as HIV and hepatitis, prostitution, governmental and societal indifference, and a terrifyingly prolific serial killer. There is a real sense of warmth and community that still remains despite all its problems.

LEA GOLDA HOLTERMAN - 3rd place - Title: UNTITLED - HAIFA, IL
each photo is a part of a large photo essay abot the humen condition of street working edicted women in israel in at the old central bus station in tel-aviv. my aim as a photographer is to expose the human face under the steriotype, document there spiritual condition and fisical contition and to create a statment by exposing diffrent espects of there life style.

Personality

LUNG LIU - 1st place - Title: The Downtown Eastside #2 - SURREY, CA

KEIKO HIROMI - 2nd place - Title: Jacques Cabaret - DORCHESTER, US
Jacques Cabaret, back Stage and show gorls

EKATERINA KISELEVA - 3rd place - Title: Russian architect Dmitry Minaev - MOSCOW, RU

Photo Essay

LUNG LIU - 1st place - Title: Abandoned - SURREY, CA
The Salton Sea was once a destination to the stars in its heyday, but now lies abandoned and neglected. Yet in its neglection lies the beauty found in the quiet of its death and decay. Many see this area as an eyesore, unable to see past the deterioration of its ruins, but it is exactly the deterioration along with nature's efforts to reclaim her land that makes this place so heart-breaking in its beauty.

JAMES COLE - 2nd place - Title: Vagrants of America - AUBURN, US

CARL OELERICH - 3rd place - Title: The Cuban Peasant - SALT LAKE CITY, US

Sports

TOM VANI - 1st place - Title: Feast for Fans - SANTA CRUZ, US

MINDY TAN HUIMIN - 2nd place - Title: When sports is more than how fast you can run - SINGAPORE, SG
This series of photographs was shot at the Manila Para Games 2005 - a sports meet for athletes either born with defects or met with accidents later in their lives. It's not about how fast they can run, or who gets the medal. The opportunity to get out of their hometowns and villages, and the courage to brave life, is a triumph of adversity, not measurable by tangibles.

SUSAN BOWEN - 3rd place - Title: Gleason's Gym, Group of Four - BROOKLYN, US