Photographer of the Year
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1st Place - Outstanding Achievement Title: Far away, So close Illusionary colors and shapes are magnificent in landscape photography. There is always a thin nuance in art, which lays in between life, nature and it's human condition.
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2nd Place - Merit of Excellence Title: Lost Childhood One of the most important part of a child's life is being loved and nurtured in a family. Childhood is incomplete, even damaged, without it. But for some families, providing for their children and nurturing them with the necessary comfort is a luxury. They simply do not have the bare minimum. They end up giving their children into child labour so that they can earn money to survive. Ultimately, they become a little more than an additional - and much needed - source of income. Regardless of reasons, this essentially turns these children into day-labourers and inevitably contributes to a brutal loss of innocence. Photos show children at a ship propeller making factory at Sadarghat dockyard in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka, working without proper safety equipment and in an overall unsafe condition. They say their work starts at 7 in the morning and goes on until 7 in the evening. 12 hours of hard physical labour earns them $2.50 dollar a day. They have no weekly vacation.
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3rd Place - Honor of Distinction Title: autumn
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