The International Photography Awards conducts an annual competition for professional, non-professional, and student photographers on a global scale.
They recently announced the 2012 category winners, who will compete for IPA’s top award of International Photographer of the Year. Those finalists will be invited to attend the Lucie Awards at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles, where one photographer will be announced as the grand winner, earning the coveted Lucie statue and a cash prize of $10K.
The work on display at the IPA website is impeccable. Check out just a few of our favorites below:
Alinka Echeverria - "Becoming South Sudan"
Ian Butterworth - "Kingly + Saintly"
James Day - "Hotwheels"
Trent Mitchell - "The Turtle Glide"
Peter Caton - "Portrait of Kala-azar sufferer Manikant"
Karen Knorr - "India Song"
Rostislav Mashin - "The Long Way Home"
Sim Chang - "Flawless Love"
Rina Castelnuovo - "Tradition"
Samantha VanDeman - "Forgotten Hotels"
Michal Giedrojc - "Animals Dreams"
Nadav Kander - "Smoke Free"
Sharad Haksar - "Divine Irony"
Marsel van Oosten - "The Valley of Death"
Marsel van Oosten - "Close Encounters"
Marsel van Oosten - "Close Encounters"
David Darcy - "Australian Mongrel"
Johnny Vong - "Amputee Football in Sierra Leone"
Adelin Petrisor - "The Gigantic North Korean Parade"
Jeffrey Bright - " Occupy Cabinate Clashes Cairo"
Alkis Konstantinidis - "Greece in Crisis"
Simon Krieger - "March to Jerusalem"
Paul Rigol - "Egypt's Ongoing Revolution"
Fernando Moleres - "Waiting for Justice"
Fernando Moleres - "Waiting for Justice"
Lisa Wiltse - "Charcoal Kids of Ulingan"
Tomohide Ikeya - "Moon"
Catala Vincent - "The Island"
Catala Vincent - "The Island"
View all of the winners at the IPA website