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.
WINNER: Jason McGroarty Project Totem (Series)WINNER: Maxim Dondyuk CULTURE of the CONFRONTATION (Series)Abstract: amateur – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Richard Seah ABSTRACT BIRDSAbstract: professional – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Candi Qianwen Jiang My Geometric WorldArchitecture: amateur – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Mohammad Rafiee Gateway Into IranArchitecture: professional – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Frank Machalowski multiexpo100Cityscape: amateur – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Dorothée Rapp a rainy dayConceptual : professional – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Marta Bevacqua Through The GlassFashion: professional – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Aorta Photography PlayspaceFine Art: amateur – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Mira Nedyalkova “An elixir for existence”Landscape / Seascape: amateur – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Julie Fletcher GRAVEYARDLandscape / Seascape: professional – 1ST PLACE WINNER: John Kosmopoulos The Veils of EdenNature: professional – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Francisco Mingorance The ladies of the seaNight Photography: amateur – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Tristan O’Tierney Wedding RoadNudes: amateur – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Elena Helfrecht RitualsNudes: professional – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Martin Krystynek Sensual BeautyOpen Theme: professional – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Nicolas Genette Our handsPanoramic: amateur – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Anique Naseeruddeen Glacial StormPanoramic : professional – 1ST PLACE WINNER: BOB KIM Envisioned LandscapesPeople: amateur – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Goran Jovic ObserverPhotojournalism: amateur – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Jan Møller Hansen Shamsul (Photomanipulation: amateur – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Patrick Ems Escaping RealityPhotomanipulation: professional – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Lev Savitskiy MincerPortrait: amateur – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Claudia Wycisk jokerPortrait: professional – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Erika Masterson Parts of the Earth 2Special: Aerial: professional – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Johannes Heuckeroth Manhattan IslandSpecial: Family: amateur – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Filippo Venturi NeofascistsStreet Photography: amateur – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Desislava Ignatova GhostlyTravel: amateur – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Sebastien Tixier AllanngorpoqTravel: professional – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Evgeny Dubinchuk Ice skating on lake BaikalWildlife / Animals: amateur – 1ST PLACE WINNER: José Javier Delgado Esteban Whale Nation: Humpback Whales of the South PacificWildlife / Animals: professional – 1ST PLACE WINNER: Richard Garvey-Williams Exposed