AAP Magazine #17 - PORTRAIT 2021
Portrait
Annoucing Winners and Merit Awards
Winner's Gallery
Joseph-Philippe Bevillard
Paddy, Galway, Ireland 2019
Like many boys and girls in the travelling communities, boxing is their favourite sport. His three older brothers are also boxers. Fathers will teach their children from a young age, and I often encounter young male travellers sparring to enhance their skills.
First Place winner
$500 Cash Prize
Ireland
Paddy, Galway, Ireland 2019
Erberto Zani
Survivors
009_Neetu, 31 years old (Agra, India). She was just 3 years old when the father attacked her, the mother and the youngest sister of 18 months, with acid. Neetu had lost her vision in both eyes and deep scars on her face. After two months from the aggression, Neetu's sister died at hospital for problems at head because of acid.
Actually Neetu works at Sheroes Hangout Cafè in Agra.
The criminal still lives with the family / victims.
Second Place Winner
$300 Cash Prize
Italy
Survivors
Nadide Goksun
Portrait of a painter, Nedret Sekban
Third Place Winner
$200 Cash Prize
Nadide Goksun
United States
Portrait of a painter, Nedret Sekban
Merit Award's Gallery
Madison Casagranda
Joyce
The tintypes of the Black Stories Project embody the history of photography and the history of racial inequity specifically in the state of Utah. We can only address the current issues of systemic inequality while acknowledging and grappling with the history behind them. This project is a study about how the weight of our state’s history and the lens through which it is told, affects how Black individuals experience life here today.
Jeffrey B Kellner
Hairy Man
I made this image on the the boardwalk of Coney Island, New York in the late 1970s. This was made with a 4x5 view camera. He is very please with himself.
Jacopo Della Valle
FETAYO
At the end of my last trip to Ethiopia I arrived in the city of Jinka, where I met Abushe, the boy famous for his blue eyes. In a small agglomeration of scattered houses there was his house: one small room of few square meters. Moving the curtain at the entrance this is the scene that arose: Abushe's mother intent on nursing the youngest daughter in a plastic pose, almost like a caravaggesque Madonna. Little light in the room, only a beam of light illuminating the scene.
Joe Buergi
Portrait of a dockworker from Bangladesh
Joe Buergi
Switzerland
gabriella aragon
anna
Diane Fenster
Untitled
Jolana Havelková
From the "Images of my friends" series, PC, 1997, BW Photograph
I have been photographing my acquaintances, friends and relatives since 1996. I ask them to take a seat, undress and look at the camera. I don't adjust their gestures or poses too much.
It's important for me to capture fragile unexpected moments.
People are surrounded by a minimum of things that could characterize or identify them. People could choose a place where they would be taken a photograph of and where (on what chair) they would sit.
Arne Wesenberg
Untitled
Peter Caton
Another worry
"We always feel weak during the day because of the mosquito bites during the night. I am worried about that."
Nyapata Thiel sits in a classroom which has become a makeshift shelter for many who have nowhere else to go.
Peter Caton
United Kingdom
Susanne Middelberg
Moritz -Jorre
portrait of Moritz-Jorre
Randy Bacon
Carol from The Road I Call Home - Portraits of the Homeless By Randy Bacon
Randy Bacon is a contemporary American photographer. At the core of his work is the ability to present emotive, authentic visual stories of the people he photographs. The Road I Call Home features simple, direct, casual studio portraits of homeless individuals. The portraits emphasize their beauty, identity and integrity as to convey a message, "We are all one-of-a-kind miracles. We need to realize how incredibly special and important each 'one' is in this world of over 7 billion people."
Frank Lynch
Impressions of the Dublin City Commute
Dubliners commuters are a hardy lot. The city has no underground and commuters have to rely on a bus system that is unreliable, infrequent and way too expensive. It can be at times soul destroying, especially when it rains and the cold wind tries to cut you in half. In addition to all this, the real time displays at every bus stop are always lying – promising you that a bus is due in 5 minutes when in fact it has actually disappeared off the face of the earth . . .
Michael Joseph
Sharon
This is a polaroid Big Shot portrait made on the street in Provincetown, MA from the series "Wild West of the East."From an empty space where the Pilgrims first landed, to a Portuguese fishing village, to an artist’s colony and now a LGBTQ+ community Provincetown has always been a transformative space. This tradition of acceptance lies deep. To many, it is a found Neverland where the concept of “play” is encouraged, and the confines of society are stripped away.
Emil Lombardo
Danni - They/Them
February 2021
From "Series from an unending Sunday morning", a documentary project about trans and non-binary people in London during the last national lockdown in the UK.
Emil Lombardo
United Kingdom
Chiara Felmini
Untitled
Wednesday Aja
Dress Rehearsal
“Endora’s Dress Rehearsal” ongoing project takes a peek into the day-to-day life of a drag queen. From Wednesday night Drag Bingo to Friday’s cabaret show.
Wednesday Aja
United States
Laurent de Gebhardt
Grey Currawong
I was inspired by a painting from the Musée d'Orsay for this photo: Louis Pasteur by Albert Gustav Edelfelt (1885). I wanted a clear / obscure atmosphere and a certain gravity in the character. Fakroudine Adamdjy, mediation agent at the Natural History Museum of St Denis, amazed me by fitting perfectly into the character.
Vincent Karcher
Mauritanian Tuareg
This man was traveling the Sahara on his camel in the remote eastern part of Mauritania.
Gail Just
Arts District
Artist community turns out to celebrate Downtown Los Angeles' Arts District.
Gail Just
United States
Antoine Janot
President of a local association that fights for the rights of people living with albinism
This picture was taken during the 2019 edition of World Albinism Day at the United Nations Information Center in Dakar.
Antoine Janot
France
Istvan Kerekes
Shepherds from Transylvania
Shepherds from Transylvania area of Romania
Istvan Kerekes
Hungary
William Ropp
Noble Man 1
Noble Beings
Noble Men. Noble Women. Noble Children… Using a visual metaphor, William Ropp features a nobility that is primarily of character. He shows us Humans whose nobility resides in the core being.
William Ropp
France
Thank You!
