AAP Magazine #40 - Portrait 2024
Portrait
Announcing Winners and Merit Awards
Winner's Gallery
Aline Smithson
Lucy in Teal, from Redefining Beauty
First Place winner
$500 Cash Prize
United States
Lucy in Teal, from Redefining Beauty
Manuel Besse
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Paroissiales d’Utsjoki-Venla – FINLANDE
Second Place Winner
$300 Cash Prize
France
Paroissiales d’Utsjoki-Venla – FINLANDE
Simon Martin
Shian in Super Fans dining room, Essex
Shian, drummer and former member of Razorlite poses for a portrait in a super fans dining room during the filming of a documentary.
Third Place Winner
$200 Cash Prize
United Kingdom
Shian in Super Fans dining room, Essex
Merit Award's Gallery
Rene Dissel
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Untitled
Joseph-Philippe Bevillard
Miley, Galway, Ireland 2023
Irish Traveller Miley posed for the camera at a popular horse fair in Galway.
Yukio Kumada
I am starving!
My wife on the street.
Yukio Kumada
Japan
Sandy Hill
Untitled
Sandy Hill
United States
Harry Williams
susan
Susan is un housed, she asked me to photograph her so she could have a document of how she looks
Harry Williams
United States
Roberta Dall’Alba
Harmony in the Hustle
This captures a tender moment of a child hugged by his grandma. I was near the bustling streets of Sensoji Temple in Tokyo, when I captured this sweet image. I think it beautifully contrasts the chaotic urban environment with the warmth and love shared between generations.
Roberta Dall’Alba
Italy
Martina Holmberg
People to whom I have invited myself
Voukko has suffered from severe rheumatism for several years. The photo are from my ongoing project ”People to whom I have invited myself”.
Martina Holmberg
Sweden
Prescott Moore Lassman
Mary
These portraits are from the Miss Subways reunion held at the iconic Ellen’s Stardust Diner in Midtown Manhattan. Each Miss Subway appeared on posters in the NYC subway trains for a month or two between 1941 and 1976.. Although Miss Subways invariably were attractive, they were not intended to be “beauty queens.” Instead, they were chosen as examples of real working New York women with their own hopes, dreams, and aspirations. Some commentators have even described it as “covertly feminist."
Alena Grom
Stolen Spring
I live in Bucha and work in Irpin. After the Russian occupation, these cities were destroyed. The military landscape has become my reality and routine. Every day I see people who are restoring their cities, their personal lives from the ruins and looking into the future.
I created a series of photographs in a historical dialogue with images by Polish photographer Michael Nash, who captured how the photographer used a decorative backdrop to mask the ruins of Warsaw during World War II in 1945/
Eva Chupikova
Anna
Diego Fabro
Niamh III
My fascination lies in the concept of a theatrical stage, inspired by Samuel Becket’s play Waiting for Godot, where characters are trapped in their confined space, grappling with their own limitations and the futility of escape and passage of time.
Tom Zimberoff
Prizefighter Kasamune Spirits from the Bruisers Series of Portraits
A work in progress inspired by Mike Tyson’s famous quip, “Everybody’s got a plan until they get punched in the face,” this series of portraits called "Bruisers" explores the motivations and capacities of men and women to test their mettle in the crucible of combat by getting punched in the face in the ring. Each fighter steps out of the ring after a match and immediately confronts the camera, still sweaty, swollen, bruised, and bloodied.
Aurelien Bayo
Ethan
Michael, 15, gives his friend Ethan a haircut in a New York park, using skills he learned from his older brother, who recently got out of prison. Michael offers his haircuts for free, as he doesn't believe in charging for them.
Andreas Kanell
The moose tamer
Andreas Kanell
Greece
Allison Martinek
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Manuela Thames
Anonymous Woman 4
Vintage photograph of a woman superimposed and paired with my own images to re-invent and reimagine stories from the past.
think of many women from the past such as the “anonymous women” in these vintage photographs that, I imagine, lived through hardships, had very few choices, and had to make endless sacrifices. I think of them as unsung heroes that deserve to be highlighted, remembered and seen.
mike narciso
Untitled
mike narciso
United States
Alex Lobo
The Journey #4
A sample from a larger series about childhood and the journey into early life: a whole new world of sensations, unexplored places and thrilling, but sometimes terrifying experiences.
Anna Biret
Untitled
Erberto Zani
Agent Orange: the war that never ended
003_District of Vinh Linh, Vietnam: Phūng Thê Que, 31 years old, she is a patient of Down syndrome. Her father, Phūng Thê Tram fought for North Vietnam.
Maïlys Derville
Madeleine, Denise and Marie
Madeleine, 26 yo, mother of 4 children including two twins - Denise and Marie - lives with her husband in the village of Ethiwar. Pays Bédik, 2022.
Maïlys Derville
France
Maryam Ashrāfi
Untitled
Northern Northern Syria, Kobanî Canton, May 2016
Portrait of a YPJ (Women's Protection Units) fighter. After the liberation of Kobane from ISIS, YPG and YPJ fighters advanced in the region and recaptured 160 villages.
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