Across the River, Burma From the series “Songs of the River: Portraits from Burma.” © Monica Denevan, United States, 1st place winner, All About Photo Awards 2020

Avery Skipalis (33) – Tampa, Florida / THE AMERIGUNS – In the States there are more guns than people. “120.5 registered firearms for every 100 residents” and the statistic doesn’t count “not-registers firearms”. As an European, I started wondering if owning many weapons by a single person or family is a common habit in the US. I traveled across the US and created a series of 45 portrait of families or single individuals, including all races and beliefs, together with their firearms. © Gabriele Galimberti, Italy, 2nd place winner, All About Photo Awards 2020

Philomena A little Irish Traveler girl looks out of her family car before going home to her family’s Illegal encampment. © Rebecca Moseman, United States, 3rd place winner, All About Photo Awards 2020

Sustenance 4 Desert: “a waterless, desolate area of land with little or no vegetation, typically one covered with sand.” And yet, there is life in the desert. More than most people realize. In the Namib this is thanks to the wonderful miracle of fog – the clouds that roll in from the Atlantic Ocean bring with them moisture that sustain the fauna and flora living in this beautiful, harsh landscape. © Nadia De Lange, Switzerland, 4th place winner, All About Photo Awards 2020

Jump of the wildebeest Annual migration of the wildebeest at Northern Serengeti, Tanzania. This wildebeest did not wait for its turn and jumped on top of the others. © Nicole Cambre, Belgium, 5th place winner, All About Photo Awards 2020

Saving Orangutans 72 Indonesia, Sumatra, Aceh province, Jantho Reintroduction Centre located in the Jantho Pine Forest Nature Reserve. At dawn, veterinarian Pandu crosses the Krueng Aceh river in a small boat carrying Diana, an 8-year-old female orangutan, for a final release. https://alainschroeder.myportfolio.com/ © Alain Schroeder, Belgium, Particular Merit Mention, All About Photo Awards 2020

The Polar Night It looks like the darkness of evening, but this is 14:25 in the afternoon during the long polar night in Russia’s arctic capital city Murmansk. © Amos Chapple, New Zealand, Particular Merit Mention, All About Photo Awards 2020

Perfect Binding A women and her cat wonder through the streets of Los Angeles, I placed myself below so that I can get a photo of the cat, when I did this, the cat did something of a blink of a eye. The cat put his paw up showing off its claws and the way I was positioned made it seem as the cat was covering its owners face. I’ve created this image to show the unique relationship between the women and the cat. © Andre Fonseca, United States, Particular Merit Mention, All About Photo Awards 2020

Donkey Parade © Anne Berry, United States, Particular Merit Mention, All About Photo Awards 2020

Eye sea A school of Bigeye trevaly and divers at Cabo Pulmo National Park, Mexico. © Anuar Patjane, Mexico, Particular Merit Mention, All About Photo Awards 2020

Woman Plucking a Chicken From the documentary series “Life in the Ozarks: An Arkansas Portrait” © Beverly Conley, United States, Particular Merit Mention, All About Photo Awards 2020

Reflection: Departed The frame is a symbol for our frame of reference, the way we frame ourselves, and inaccuracy of depiction. Here she climbs through the frame only to disappear through the other side. © Brooke Shaden, United States, Particular Merit Mention, All About Photo Awards 2020

“The Wallace’s Flying Frog is a moss frog found in Malaysia and western Indonesia. It is generally quite photogenic given its large size, brilliant colours and calm temperament. This is a shot taken of a specimen swimming in water, with full extension of its beautiful long legs. Follow photographer Chin Leong Teo at www.instagram.com/teochinleong78 .” © Chin Leong Teo, Japan, Particular Merit Mention, All About Photo Awards 2020

The Story Teller The Kara people, who speak an Omotic language, are a small group (approximately 1,000 people) occupying the left bank of the Omo River. © Donell Gumiran, United Arab Emirates, Particular Merit Mention, All About Photo Awards 2020

Hello Sunshine Jenna carefully watches two giant boa constrictors that their owner—a street performer she barely knows—entrusted to her. She is careful to keep the snake wrapped around exercise bars to prevent a wound in the animal’s mouth from touching the sand and getting infected. Jenna is a single mom on disability. She suffers from failed back surgery syndrome, acquired from a violent car accident she had as a teenager. She and her young son Jackson can be found most afternoons on the beach. © Dotan Saguy, United States, Particular Merit Mention, All About Photo Awards 2020

The Lost Swimmer © Elena Paraskeva, Cyprus, Particular Merit Mention, All About Photo Awards 2020

Beyond the wall Sometimes a shot cannot contain emotions, memories, moods … you need more … you have to “chisel” the image to make that evolutionary-creative leap necessary to reach the right size. This photo is intended as a small tribute to a great Master: Henri Cartier Bresson, the one who first knew how to show me the reality of ever with new eyes: more human, artistic, poetic. His photos taken between the 1950s and 1970s in Basilicata (my homeland) and around the world have changed the perspective of things in me, creating a fantastic “imprinting” and becoming a source of great inspiration. © Francesco Pace Rizzi, Italy, Particular Merit Mention, All About Photo Awards 2020

The Sack Race 1 From the series – The Playground Series – wherein the mystery of children at play is explored. © Francisco Diaz & Deb Young, United States, Particular Merit Mention, All About Photo Awards 2020

In the fog of teargas Anti-government protesters are seen in in the fog of teargas which was deployed by riot police force during confrontation outside of Central Government Complex in Central District of Hong Kong on September 15, 2019 Protesters use umbrella, gas mask, and goggles to protect them self from tear gas and water canon. © Go Nakamura, United States, Particular Merit Mention, All About Photo Awards 2020

Windows Of Our Soul Let there be many windows to your Soul That all the glory of the world may beautify it! I love anything related to Surreal World and This picture represented my actualization about Surreal Art in Photography © Hardijanto Budiman, Indonesia, Particular Merit Mention, All About Photo Awards 2020

Untitled – Man on a White Horse, Buffalo, WY © Jennifer Garza-Cuen, United States, Particular Merit Mention, All About Photo Awards 2020

Shutters © Jo Ann Chaus, United States, Particular Merit Mention, All About Photo Awards 2020

The Now They say 90% of freediving is mental. The brain consumes a lot of oxygen in the body especially when processing visuals. Diving without masks helps a freediver not having to waste air to equalise their masks, but also as a way to remove any visual distractions that may deter him from the present. Here is a South African freediver diving to depth of 64m for the National Record, taken at the AAS Freediving Depth Championships in 2019. © Kohei Ueno, Japan, Particular Merit Mention, All About Photo Awards 2020

A monkey entering a Japanese hot spring. Had various expressions like a person. © Kosuke Kitajima, Japan, Particular Merit Mention, All About Photo Awards 2020

The Grand Procession 2 On April 2, 2019 tens of thousands of Hasidic men and women from every major sect crammed the thoroughfares of Borough Park, Brooklyn, for Rabbi Portugal’s funeral. Mourners walked alongside the car carrying the casket to pay their last respects. The Skulener Rebbe, Rabbi Yisroel Avrohom Portugal, died on April 1, 2019. He was the last American Rebbe born in pre-war Europe. He may have been the last of the Hasidic Grand Rabbis who survived the ordeals of both the Holocaust and the Iron Curtain. He had no more than a few hundred followers and no enormous synagogue or prestigious yeshiva as his base. Yet Rabbi Yisroel Avrohom Portugal, the Grand Rabbi of the tiny Skulen Hasidic sect, was revered throughout the ultra-Orthodox world. © Lori Hawkins, United States, Particular Merit Mention, All About Photo Awards 2020

Polarbearpet Climate change, and the loss of sea ice habitat, is the greatest threat to polar bears. More and more polar bears are being forced ashore, away from their sea-ice hunting grounds. But it does not make sense to make your home (or bathroom) available as a haven for the polar bear. It’s better to spread awareness about the real and pressing threat of climate change. © Marcel van Balken, Netherlands, Particular Merit Mention, All About Photo Awards 2020

2020 Women’s March, New York City Memorial for women of color, victims of violence, 2020 Women’s March, New York City, 1/2020 © Margaret McCarthy, United States, Particular Merit Mention, All About Photo Awards 2020

The Wall Frame, Arizona © Matthew Portch, Australia, Particular Merit Mention, All About Photo Awards 2020

Step by Step Impression Lijiang is a cultural show which demonstrating the traditions and lifestyle of local Naxi, Yi and Bai ethnics of the area. It is the second outdoor production of famous film director, Zhang Yimou which debuts an open-air performance at the foot of Yulong Xueshan (Jade Dragon Snow Mountain) about 3500 meters above sea level. The performance stage is specially designed to showcase the mountain as the best backdrop of the show. More than 500 local people from ten ethnic groups © Mustafa AbdulHadi, Bahrain, Particular Merit Mention, All About Photo Awards 2020

Portrait of Lorca It is the story of a girl who lived through a period of history but was never seen, and though she was a very artistic, she always hid herself from others until one day her identity was revealed. She was still trying to keep his identity a secret until she was satisfied to register herself in history. This girl’s name is Lorca, and I have been trying to portray her face with the story she has in my mind so that the whole world can touch her feelings. © Peyman Naderi, Iran, Particular Merit Mention, All About Photo Awards 2020

Newest Cowboy in Town Newborn Jestin Brown is held by his father, Jessie Brown, at their home in Cleveland, Mississippi. This image is part of my ongoing project about the overlooked subculture of African American cowboys and cowgirls in the rural Mississippi Delta. Historians agree that just after the Civil War, one in four cowboys were African American. Yet this population was drastically underrepresented in popular accounts, and it is still. © Rory Doyle, United States, Particular Merit Mention, All About Photo Awards 2020

Woman Mursi The Mursi tribe are an African tribe from the isolated Omo valley in Southern Ethiopia near the border with Sudan. The photo is part of the album “Ethiopian tribes expedition” 2018 © Svetlin Yosifov, Bulgaria, Particular Merit Mention, All About Photo Awards 2020

Cemetery Small cemetery in winter outside of a village named Rejvíz in Jeseníky Mountains, Czech Republic. © Tomas Neuwirth, Czech Republic, Particular Merit Mention, All About Photo Awards 2020

Break away A man falling off a bull in a rodeo event held in Taralga Australia © Tony Law, Australia, Particular Merit Mention, All About Photo Awards 2020

Waterlilies harvesting Farmers are washing waterlilies and packing before sending off to market in Mekong delta, Vietnam, in flood season. © Trung Pham Huy, Vietnam, Particular Merit Mention, All About Photo Awards 2020

Happy dancer © Xiangli Zhang, China, Particular Merit Mention, All About Photo Awards 2020

Untitled This image was taken while on a trip to the Suri tribe in the Omo Valley in Southern Ethiopia. The model was not dressed, simply recorded as is. No artificial lighting was used. The picture was taken within a dark tent with the light coming in from the entrance of the tent. © Yoni Blau, Israel, Particular Merit Mention, All About Photo Awards 2020

Inheritor of Eagle Hunting Elders training the kid for hunting with eagles at a hill nearby Bayan Olgii. There are an estimated 250 eagle hunters in Bayan-Olgii, which is located in the Altai Mountains of western Mongolian. They maintained ancient practice of hunting with golden eagles on horseback, and they primarily hunt red foxes and corsac foxes. © Zay Yar Lin, Myanmar, Particular Merit Mention, All About Photo Awards 2020