The Artist Gallery Awards Shared 11 Best Images Of 2024

As always, we’re incredibly excited to share a stunning selection of photographs, this time curated by The Artist Gallery Awards 2024. The jury faced the tough task of selecting finalists across ten themed categories: Night, Architecture, Minimalism, Wildlife, Travel, Documentary, Black & White, Places, Portrait, and Street.

Scroll down to admire this fascinating collection of images shared by the competition, and let us know in the comments below which photograph stands out to you as the best!

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11 PHOTOS

#1 1st Place, Night: Dancing Queen By Gianluca Rubinacci, Italy

360 panorama of an aurora kp6: near flakstad beach (Norway), the sky started dancing above my head and gave me an hour before it completely covered, giving me time to take this panorama.

#2 2nd Place, Wildlife: Free Ride By Randall Ball, USA

Young cub of the Paradise Pride gets a free ride from his mother in the Masai Mara.

#3 1st Place, Wildlife: I Spy By Turgay Uzer, USA

A young leopard had stashed a kill on a tree branch and was hiding in the bushes underneath. Occasionally it would check on its kill, and that's when I spotted its eye through a keyhole in the thicket.

#4 2nd Place, Night: Shore Bound By Liam Man, United Kingdom

According to Icelandic folklore, the Reynisdrangar Trolls [sea stacks] were created when two trolls were attempting to drag a three-masted ship to shore. In their haste they didn’t notice that the sun was rising. As the rays of daylight hit them, they (and the ship) were instantly turned to stone.

#5 3rn Place, Night: Bottle Tree By Rositsa Dimitrova, Bulgaria

The Socotran bottle tree is endemic to the Yemeni island - you can only find it there. It is especially beautiful under the dark skies and the Milky way.

#6 2nd Place, Places: Skyland By Riccardo Morresi, Italy

One of the most beautiful lighthouses on the island of Tenerife in Punta de Teno, under one of the spectacular skies you can find, which is how this wonderful overview was born

#7 2nd Place, Minimalist: Justice By Dsara Zafarana, Italy

Dedicated to Floyd 2020

#8 3rd Place, Minimalist: Lotus By Chao Yang Huang, Taiwan

The lotus hides like a shy girl.

#9 2nd Place, Documentary: Semana Santa Sevilla - Bola De Cera By Juan Carlos Hervás, Spain

As in the first picture of the series, a child asks for wax to make his ball. Now older, he doesn’t need his father’s help, and at the end of the week he will compete with his friends to see who has the biggest wax ball.

#10 2nd Place, Architecture: Suburban Dystopia By Florian Kriechbaumer, Uae

A collection of identical villas in one of Dubai's purpose built neighbourhoods, only differentiated by their colour scheme.

#11 1st Place, Portrait: The Bitter Face Of War By Erçin Ertürk, Turkey

Sergey Raylyan lost his eyes and feet during a car explosion on an anti-tank mine in 2022 near Maryinka in the Donetsk Oblast. Then commander of a mortar artillery group in the Ukrainian army, 26-year-old Raylyan was seriously wounded after his unit drove a pickup truck into an anti-tank mine.

#12 1st Place, Black And White: Shapes By Florian Kriechbaumer, Germany

The flowing Abaya of a local women along the flowing lines of the Heydar Aliyev Center. The design was meant to break from the rigid forms prevalent in most of Baku's Soviet legacy architecture.