ND Awards (Neutral Density Awards) announced the winners of their international photography contest! The judges reviewed 6422 entries submitted from 85 countries.
Brooke Shaden (United States) has been announced as the overall winner of Professional category with the title: ND Photographer Of The Year 2016 and $2500 prize money.
Brooke Shaden – ND Photographer of the Year 2016
In Non-Professional category Rosario Civello (Italy) won the title ND Discovery Of The Year 2016 and $1300 in cash.
Rosario Civello – ND Discovery of the Year 2015
Additionally, 6 cash prizes ($500 each) went to Professional category winners: Andrea Cimino (Italy) in Advertising, Tony Mcateer (United Kingdom) in Architecture, Alain Schroeder (Belgium) in Editorial, Brooke Shaden (United States) in Fine Art, Bernhard Lang (Germany) in Nature and Linda de’Nobili (Italy) in People.
Andrea Cimino – ND Advertising Photographer of the Year 2016Tony Mcateer – ND Architectural Photographer of the Year 2016Alain Schroeder – ND Editorial Photographer of the Year 2016Bernhard Lang – ND Nature Photographer of the Year 2016Linda de Nobili – ND People Photographer of the Year 2016
Also, 5 Non-Professional category winners receive their cash prizes ($300 each): Anna Laudan (Germany) in Architecture, Rosario Civello (Italy) in Fine Art, Daniel Řeřicha (Czech Republic) in Nature, Matt Hamon (United States) in People, Selvy Ngantung (Indonesia) in Special category.
Anna Laudan – ND Architectural Discovery of the Year 2016Daniel Řeřicha – ND Nature Discovery of the Year 2016Matt Hamon – ND People Discovery of the Year 2016Selvy Ngantung – ND Special Discovery of the Year 2016
ND Awards aim to promote photography and photographers. Their idea is to create new opportunities to present most valuable work to the audience all over the world. To build a place where photographers can show diverse points of view and thrive through competition.
Anja Behrens – Advertising: Conceptual – 1st Place – ProfessionalMaren Caruso – Advertising: Product / Objects – 1st Place – ProfessionalAlexandre Manuel – 1st Place Architecture: Cityscapes – ProfessionalChristophe Martin – 1st Place – Architecture: Industrial – ProfessionalPietro Di Giambattista – 1st Place Editorial: Daily Life – ProfessionalCarina Maiwald – 1st Place Fine Art: Landscape – ProfessionalDavid Martin Castan 1st Place Nature: Landscapes – ProfessionalRicardo Stuckert – 1st Place – People: Travel & Culture – ProfessionalMirna Pavlovic – 1st Place Architecture: Interiors – Non-ProfessionalFrancisco Diaz and Deb Young – 1st Place Fine Art: Photomanipulation – Non-ProfessionalMarek Mis – 1st Place Nature: Other – Non-ProfessionalJovana Mladenovic – 1st Place People: Portrait – Non-ProfessionalDebiprasad Mukherjee – 1st Place Special: Photojournalism – Non-Professional