Fine Art Photography Awards (FAPA) announced winners of their annual photography competition.
Ukrainian photographer Maxim Dondyuk has been announced as the overall winner of Professional category with the title: Professional Fine Art Photographer of the Year 2015 and $3000 prize money. His winning series called ‘Culture of the confrontation’ documents 3 months of bloody clashes, tears, fear, Molotov cocktails, burning car tires and deaths during Ukrainian revolution in 2013.
Additionally, in Amateur category Irish photographer Jason Mcgroarty was announced as Amateur Fine Art Photographer of the Year 2015 with $2000 prize money. His winning series called ‘Project Totem’ capture the heart-stopping moment when the wild breaches the barriers of the city and reminds us that the line between humans and wildlife is not as clear-cut as we would like to believe in, and that in the animal kingdom, the only thing we can count on is unpredictability, that the unexpected should be expected.
In 2015 Fine Art Photography Awards received more than 3000 submissions from 77 countries around the world. Winners were selected by highly acclaimed panel of international judges, including: Qingjun Huang, Carolyn Guild, Klaus Kampert, Pini Hamou, Rupert Vandervell, Pongsatorn Sukhum, Kilian Schönberger, Peter Kool, Lara Zankoul and GMB Akash.
Fine Art Photography Awards conducts an annual competition for Professional and Amateur photographers. FAPA mission is to celebrate Fine Art photography and to discover emerging talent from around the world.
Full gallery of winners and nominees: www.fineartphotoawards.com
WINNER: Jason McGroarty Project Totem (Series)
WINNER: Maxim Dondyuk CULTURE of the CONFRONTATION (Series)
Abstract: amateur – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Richard Seah ABSTRACT BIRDS
Abstract: professional – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Candi Qianwen Jiang My Geometric World
Architecture: amateur – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Mohammad Rafiee Gateway Into Iran
Architecture: professional – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Frank Machalowski multiexpo100
Cityscape: amateur – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Dorothée Rapp a rainy day
Conceptual : professional – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Marta Bevacqua Through The Glass
Fashion: professional – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Aorta Photography Playspace
Fine Art: amateur – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Mira Nedyalkova “An elixir for existence”
Landscape / Seascape: amateur – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Julie Fletcher GRAVEYARD
Landscape / Seascape: professional – 1ST PLACE WINNER: John Kosmopoulos The Veils of Eden
Nature: professional – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Francisco Mingorance The ladies of the sea
Night Photography: amateur – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Tristan O’Tierney Wedding Road
Nudes: amateur – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Elena Helfrecht Rituals
Nudes: professional – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Martin Krystynek Sensual Beauty
Open Theme: professional – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Nicolas Genette Our hands
Panoramic: amateur – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Anique Naseeruddeen Glacial Storm
Panoramic : professional – 1ST PLACE WINNER: BOB KIM Envisioned Landscapes
People: amateur – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Goran Jovic Observer
Photojournalism: amateur – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Jan Møller Hansen Shamsul (
Photomanipulation: amateur – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Patrick Ems Escaping Reality
Photomanipulation: professional – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Lev Savitskiy Mincer
Portrait: amateur – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Claudia Wycisk joker
Portrait: professional – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Erika Masterson Parts of the Earth 2
Special: Aerial: professional – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Johannes Heuckeroth Manhattan Island
Special: Family: amateur – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Filippo Venturi Neofascists
Street Photography: amateur – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Desislava Ignatova Ghostly
Travel: amateur – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Sebastien Tixier Allanngorpoq
Travel: professional – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Evgeny Dubinchuk Ice skating on lake Baikal
Wildlife / Animals: amateur – 1ST PLACE WINNER: José Javier Delgado Esteban Whale Nation: Humpback Whales of the South Pacific
Wildlife / Animals: professional – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Richard Garvey-Williams Exposed
via Fine Art Photography Awards Media Pack
