WPGA 2009 ANNUAL CONTEST JURORS’ ANNOUNCEMENT
(All awardees -including finalists- images' will be posted on Wednesday 18th in The WonderPick Gallery)
Participating Countries: 47
Images submitted: 3,180
Finalists: 187 images from 23 countries
WPGA CONGRATULATES ALL AWARDEES FOR THEIR EXCELLENT WORKS
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WPGA PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR 2009
FIRST PRIZE:
DILIP BHATIA
SECOND PRIZE:
TOM ATWOOD
THIRD PRIZE:
JOHN DELANEY
MERIT OF HONOR:
ANTONIO BOLFO
DOCUMENTARY HUMANITARIAN GRANT:
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LARRY LOUIE
CATEGORY ABSTRACT
FIRST PRIZE:
NAVID BARATY
SECOND PRIZE:
ALAN MUNEY
THIRD PRIZE:
ROBI GANDULI
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
DAMJAN VOGLAR
JOHN BERGHOLM
MIKE SMITH
FINALISTS:
ANDREW ILACHINSKI
JAMES LEGG
CATEGORY DIGITAL ENHANCED
FIRST PRIZE:
TOM CHAMBERS
SECOND PRIZE:
OSVALDO GONZALEZ
THIRD PRIZE:
LYNN GOLDSMITH
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
DALE ODELL
OSVALDO GONZALEZ (2 HON. MENTIONS)
RONALDO GIRGULSKY
FINALISTS:
HELEN CHIEREGO
HUGH JONES
CATEGORY: DOCUMENTARY
FIRST PRIZE:
DILIP BATHIA
SECOND PRIZE:
FRANCESCA FAGO
THIRD PRIZE:
DILIP BHATIA
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
AMRO HAMZAWI
ANDREW BIRAJ (2 HON. MENTIONS)
ANTONIO BOLFO (2 HONORABLE MENTIONS)
CHRIS MINIHANE
DILIP BHATIA (3 HON. MENTIONS)
JOHN DELANEY
DIMITRI MELLOS
FRANÇOIS DAGENAIS
GIULANO KOREN
GORDON WELTERS
JAN SEIFERT
JOYDEEP MUKHERJEE
KARSTEN RAU
KATE ORNE
LARRY LOUIE (5 HON. MENTIONS)
GIUSEPPE MOCCIA
OLIVIER DOULIERY
PETCU MIRELA
SUDIPTO DAS (2 HON. MENTIONS)
VIVIANE MOOS
FINALISTS:
ANTONIO BOLFO (3 IMAGES)
CHISTOPHER JONES
DAN KOSMAYER
DON GUREWITZ
FRANÇOIS DAGENAIS
GIUSEPPE MOCCIA
JANA ZILCAYOVA
JON EDWARDS
KATHLEEN LARAIA McLAUGHLIN
LOUIS MONTROSE
CATEGORY FINE ART:
FIRST PRIZE:
LORNE RESNICK
SECOND PRIZE:
MALAIKA WEBER
THIRD PRIZE:
TANYA GRAMATIKOVA
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
ALMENDRA SANDOVAL
ANDREA GALLUZO
ARTHUR MEEHAN
BETH MOON
BILL JACKSON
CURTIS SALONICK
DIANA DIRIWAECHTER
GEOFFREY AGRONS
JOSEPH SHIELDS
KATHRYN OSGOOD
KIMBER WALLWORK-HEINEMAN
LORENZO PAXIA
MIKE SMITH
NAVID BARATY
PATRICK De SMET
PATTY CARROLL
PETER KING
ROBERT ZIELINSKI (2 HON. MENTIONS)
SHEILA GARDNER
STAN FRIEDMAN
SUZANNE GONSALEZ
TANYA GRAMATIKOVA
TIMOTHY CUSHAN (2 HON. MENTIONS)
VINCENT PUCCIARELLI
FINALISTS:
CAMILO CRUZ
EURO ROTELLI
JAMES SPARHATT
JOY GOLDKIND
MALAIKA WEBER
NICHOLAS FEDAK II
PATRICK De SMET
PATTY CARROLL
RALPH LEDERBERGER
CATEGORY LANDSCAPES AND CITISCAPES:
FIRST PRIZE:
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DAVID ZIMMERMAN
SECOND PRIZE:
YOONG WAH WONG
THIRD PRIZE:
ERIC MOORE
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
ALAN MUNEY
BELENNA LAUTO
BERTA BUZUNARIZ
BETH MOON
DANIEL POWERS
DAVID ZIMMERMAN
DENIS FRASER
GLENN RICHARDS
JAVIER SANCHEZ MARTINEZ
JIM HABERMAN
LIAM FRANKLAND
LOUIS MONTROSE
MANUELA CIGLIUTTI
OSVALDO HAMER
PETER BOYADJIEFF
FINALISTS:
DANIEL CRAVINO
DIMITRI MELLOS
DOT RADLEY
JOHAN TOTTERSTROM
PARTHA PAL
RALPH LEDERBERGER
CATEGORY PORTRAIT – PEOPLE AND FIGURE
FIRST PRIZE:
TOM ATWOOD
SECOND PRIZE:
JOHN DELANEY
THIRD PRIZE:
JOHN DELANEY
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
ANGEL DE LA RUBIA
ANTONELLA FABIANI (2 HON. MENTIONS)
ARJUN MARK
ARMAN ZHENIKEYEV
ASHOKE KUMAR GHOSH
BEDROS AZINYAN (2 HON. MENTIONS)
BRUCE KRAVETZ
CHANDAN DEY
CHARLES SCHREINER
CHRIS KOGUT
CLAIRE GILLIAM
DAMJAN VOGLAR
DANIEL TUCKMANTEL
GEORGI KARAMIHAYLOV
HELEN CHIEREGO
ISABELLA DARNELL
JEFFRIS ELLIOT (2 HON. MENTIONS)
JOHDA SAMAR (2 HON. MENTIONS)
JOHAN ENSING
JOHN DELANEY
KEN VILLENEUVE (2 HON. MENTIONS)
LARRY LOUIE
LOLI KANTOR
MARE VACCARO
MARK SHARFMAN
SANDRA CHEN WEINSTEIN
SHEILA GARDNER
SUBHAJIT BASU (2 HON. MENTIONS)
TOM ATWOOD (3 HON. MENTIONS)
XAVIER GARZA
YUAN GAO
FINALISTS:
ADAM TAYLOR
ALISON JONES
ARTHUR MEEHAN
BRUCE KRAVETZ
CYNTHIA LaBARRE
DOT RADLEY
ERIN THAMES
GLORIANN LIU
KELLEY DALLAS
LORNE RESNICK
LOUIS MONTROSE
MARAL NIKRANG MOFRAD
MARLENE MIYAMOTO
MAURIZIO LANDRISCINA
MICHELE TARAS
PIETER MYERS
ROBIN MOORE
ROSE WARD
TORKIL FAEROE
VINCENT MUNDY
The Four Seasons Contest – Juror Announcement
All the awarded images will be posted on February 2nd in www.wonderpick.com
1st Prize: Jeanine Vitale, US, for the image Cherry Tree and Little Girls
2nd Prize: Tina Psoinos, US, for the image Winter Scene Swan Lake
3rd Prize: Kathlin Laraia McLaughlin, US, for the image Making a Haystack, Sarbi, Maramures
4th Prize: Viet Van Tran, Vietnam, for the image Harvest season
5th Prize: Douglas Capron, Canada, for the image Bonsecours patinoire, Montreal
Special Prize to the best Documentary Series:
James Fischetti, US, for his series Summer in Haiti
Honorable Mentions:
Yoon Wah Alex Wong, Turkey
Rachel Raab, US
Harold Davis, US (2 Honorable Mentions)
Dimitri Mellos, US
Rene Roalf, Denmark
Sudipto Das, India
Larry Louie, Canada
Biba Logan, Ireland
Partha Pal, India
Joahn Ensing, Netherlands
Rossitsa Antonova, Bulgaria
Julie Garran, Australia
Rosa Isabel Vazquez, Spain
Shahadat Hossain, Bangladesh
James Fischetti, US
Merit Awards:
Dey Chanan, India
Colette Kolker-Wagner, US
Catlin Harrison, UK
Viet Van Tran, Vietnam
Larry Louie, Canada (2 Merit Awards)
Madhu Gopal Rao Rama, India
Ashish Peter Gomes, Bangladesh
Johan Ensing, Netherlands
Yoon Wah Alex Wong, Turkey
Dominic Khoo, Singapore
Kenan Gürbüz, Turkey (2 Merit Awards)
Iwona Duszek, US
Somenath Mukhopadhyay, India (2 Merit Awards)
Boris Gantselevich, Israel
Julie Garran, Australia
Zoltán Balog, Hungary
Nigel Hillier, US (2 Merit Awards)
Debashis Mukherjee, India
Paul Atcliffe, France
Tomas Dziubinski, Poland
Wayne King, US
Christopher Hauth, US
Charter Weeks, US
Eric Harrison, US