The best photos from the monochrome photography contest MonoVisions Photography Awards 2021

We present to your attention the best pictures from the MonoVisions Photography Awards 2021 black-and-white photography contest. This international competition is held to honor the best monochrome photographers from around the world.

MonoVisions magazine has been holding a competition since 2017, considering applications in 12 categories: "People", "Street Photography", "Portrait", "Travel", "Abstraction", "Architecture", "Conceptual Photo", "Fine Art", "Landscapes", "Wildlife", "Nudity"and " Photojournalism". The winners are determined in the categories "Black and white photo of the Year" and "Black and white photo series of the Year". The fee for participation in each is$ 20 and$ 25, respectively. The author of the best single photo gets a prize of $ 2000; the best photo series – $ 3000.

The competition is open to photographers aged at least 18 years, who have any level of training. Below are the most striking works of the winners and winners of the incentive award MonoVisions Photography Awards 2019 and MonoVisions Photography Awards 2020 and MonoVisions Photography Awards 2021.You can follow the updates by subscribing to the contest page on Cameralabs (the "Like"button).

"The Omani Desert". 1st place in the category "Landscapes", series. By Birgit Neizer

Award "Black and white photo of the year 2021". "In your own bubble." French freediving champion Thibaut Guignet dives to a depth of more than 100 meters at a competition in Bali, Indonesia. By Kohei Ueno

Finalist in the category "Abstraction", 2021. "The Wrath of Neptune". Alfonso de Cruz Barrios

1st place in the category "Landscapes", series, 2021. "The Power of the Night". By Janis Paloulis

1st place in the category "Fine Art", 2021. Black tulips. By Peter Eleveld

Finalist in the Fine Art category, 2021. "Flower". By Szymon Brodziak

3rd place in the category "Street Photography", series, 2021. "Silhouettes". Author Georgy Orlov

2nd place in the category "Street Photography", 2021. Winter in Quebec, Canada. By Michiko Ytomo

Finalist in the category "People", 2021. Watch. By Hamid Mohammad Hossein Zadeh Hashemi

Finalist in the category "People", series, 2021. "Behind the scenes". Ballerinas at the Macedonian Opera and Ballet Theater. Author Alexander Tomovsky

Finalist in the category "People", 2021. "Work and play". By Soumya Ranjan Bhattacharyya

Finalist in the category "People", 2021. An old man enjoys the freedom of riding on an empty city ice rink before it opens to the public. By Ildiko Cardos

2nd place in the category "People", series, 2021. "Citizens of Heaven". Author Andrey Rassanov

Finalist in the category "People", 2021. "I'm awake." By Sean Glacio

1st place in the category "People", series, 2021. "The people of Morsi". Author Svetlin Yosifov

1st place in the category "People", 2021. Generations. By Sandra Ventura

1st place in the category "Portrait", 2021. "Ascent". By Szymon Brodziak

2nd place in the category "Travel", 2021. Boats with flowers for the Tet holiday, the Vietnamese New Year according to the lunar and solar calendar. By Alex Cao

2nd place in the category "Travel", series, 2021. 2 brothers on a bicycle on a family trip from France to Thailand. By Vincent Treusier

1st place in the category "Travel", 2021. A young cattle breeder in South Sudan. By Roberto Pazzi

Finalist in the category "Travel", 2021. Summer night in the mountains. By Hubert Adamczyk

1st place in the category "Architecture", series, 2021. "The insignificance of a person". By Marcel Van Balken

3rd place in the category "Architecture", series, 2021. Kazan. Author Andrey Yefimov

2nd place in the category "Architecture", 2021. Bridge. By Frank Loddenkemper

1st place in the category "Architecture", 2021. "Drowned in the fog". Aerial view of the Church of St. John of Nepomuk (John of Nepomuk). By Zdenek Wosicki

3rd place in the category "Abstraction", series, 2021. "The universe during a pandemic". Author Zixiong Jin

Finalist in the category "Fine Art", series, 2021. "The Desert Garden". By Luis Marino

1st place in the category "Fine Art", series, 2021. "Coyopapalotl Itemic". By Alexandra Black

1st place in the category "Abstraction", 2021. "Harmony". By Marcin Giba

2nd place in the category "Wildlife", 2021. "Living together". Fauna in the Yala National Park, Sri Lanka. Author Avanka Fernando

2nd place in the category "Landscapes", series, 2021. "The Rough voice of Poseidon". By Paolo Lazzarotti

1st place in the category "Landscapes", 2021. "UFO Cloud". Over Mount Fitzroy in Patagonia, between Argentina and Chile. By Francisco Negroni

2nd place in the category "Wildlife", 2021. "Silent Hunter". By Graham Eaton

1st place in the category "Wildlife", series, 2021. "The mystery of the flooded caves". Author Peter Polach

1st place in the category "Nude", 2021. "Light-lines-love". By Christian Liebrand

The main winner of the MonoVisions Photography Awards 2021, series. "Africa". By Paul Giggle

1st place in the category "Abstraction", series, 2021. "Metaphysical bodily landscapes". Author Anna Lazareva

"Buddhism under the Banyan tree". Incentive award in the category "Travel", 2020. By Gaochao Liu

"Power transmission line". 3rd place in the category "Architecture", 2020. By Shin Woo Ryu

"Amish laundry and softball." 1st place in the category "Photojournalism", 2020. By William West, Jr.

Novices in the rays of the sun. 3rd place in the category "Travel", series, 2020. By Win Tun Naing

"Lines". 1st place in the category "Abstraction", 2020. By Erdély Bálint Előd

2nd place in the category "Fine Art", 2020. By Chengbo Sun

A boy in Western Mongolia. 2nd place in the category "Travel", series, 2020. By Kevin Shea

1st place in the category "Portrait", series, 2020. Author Evgeny Matveev

1st place in the category "Conceptual photo", 2020. Author Natalia Mishina

"The Bird-man". 2nd place in the category "People", series, 2020. Author Mikhail Semenov

"Shanghai Nights". 2nd place in the category "Architecture", 2020. By Carsten Riedl

"The Misty Crown". 2nd place in the category "Landscape", 2020. By Marvin Diehl

"In broad daylight." 3rd place in the category "People", series, 2020. By Alessandro Bergamini

"Crossing the Mara River". 1st place in the category "Wildlife", series, 2020. Author Artur Stanyevich

"Sacred nature". Grand Prix, photo series, 2020. By Holly Wilmet

"The Heavenly Eye". 3rd place in the category "Landscape", 2020. By Shengfu Jiao

"Sheep flock". 1st place in the category "Travel", 2020. Author F.Dilek Uyar

"The Lightning of Zeus". 1st place in the category "Wildlife", 2020. By Nicole Jean-Paul

"We run, and you fly." 1st place in the category "Street Photography", 2020. By Dimpi Bhalotia

"The Mandalay Fisherman". 2nd place in the category "Travel", 2020. By Chin Leon Teo

"The Art of the trail". 1st place in the category "Architecture", 2020. By Mario Messer

"The race". 2nd place in the category "Wildlife", 2020. By Pierre Colin

"Mountain pass". 3rd place in the category "Travel", 2020. By Jiangchuan Tong

"Morsi's woman". 2nd place in the category "People", 2020. Author Svetlin Yosifov

"Where's Adam?" Incentive award in the category "Nude", series, 2020. By Sherayne Collett

"Sunrise in South Luangwa", Zambia. 3rd place in the category "Wildlife", 2020. By Nicole Cambrai

"Arctic Night". 1st place in the category "Landscape", 2020. By Romain Torney

"Homecoming". Badan-Jilin desert. Incentive award in the category "Travel", series, 2020. By Shin Woo Ryu

"Star Hunter". Grand Prix for Single photo, 2020. Author Tomasz Tison

"Element". 1st place in the category "Landscapes". Author Romain Torne

2nd place in the category "People". Author Natalia Mishina

2nd place in the category "Nude". Author Arkadiuzh Akki Kulasik

"El Kaulle". 2nd place in the category "Wildlife". By Francisco Negroni

"I want to be the best." 1st place in the category "Photojournalism". Author Sergey Kuranov

"The flower of the Desert". 1st place in the category "Nude", series. By Bartek Ninoveron

"Heron". 3rd place in the category "Wildlife", series. By Caroline Peppiatt

"Trauma". 1st place in the category "Conceptual photo", series. By Manuela Tams

"The final breakthrough". 1st place in the category "Street photo". By Ali Najatbakhsh Esfahani

"Shadows of Kurdistan". 1st place in the category "People", series. Author Murat Yazar

"Salt". 1st place in the category "Photojournalism", series. By Mohammad Rakibul Hasan

"A trace of insight". 1st place in the category "Fine Art", series. By Ari Prananto Hasono

"Sanctuary". 3rd place in the category "Landscapes". By Vicki Murray

"Power". 2nd place in the category "Abstraction". By Siegbert Krupa

"Light and shadows". 2nd place in the category "Landscapes". By Chen Su

"San Francisco". 2nd place in the category "Architecture". By Louis-Philippe Provost

"Brutus ' Walks". 1st place in the category "Fine Art". By Daniel Castonguay

"The poetics of childhood". 1st place in the category "Portrait", series. Author Marina Kazakova

"Striped nude-curves and lines". 1st place in the category "Nude". By Christian Libran

"Reflection". 1st place in the category "Wildlife". By Daria Huxley

"Pow-wow-dancer". 1st place in the category "Abstraction", series. By Timothy Hyke

"Ocean". 1st place in the category "Wildlife", series. By Romain Torney

"Half of it." 2nd place in the category "Street photo", series. By Valerio Di Mauro

"Busy railway station". 1st place in the category "Travel", series. Author Veselin Atanasov

"Monoculture". 3rd place in the category "Landscapes", series. By Mariusz Krzyzak

"Midtown". 1st place in the category "Architecture". By Trevor Messersmith

"Maya". 1st place in the "Portrait" category. By Hanna Derecka

"Mom's at work." 1st place in the category "Travel". By Tatiana Gomez

"Cocoon". 3rd place in the category "Abstraction". Author Alexander Budash

"Kim City". 2nd place in the category "Travel", series. By Alain Schroeder

"Sunset". 1st place in the category "People". By Hoa Tran Trung

"Oak Solo". 3rd place in the category "Fine Art", series. By Hilda Champion

"Hezhang Village". 3rd place in the category "Travel", series. By Shirley Wung

"Wedding day". 3rd place in the category "People". By Rui Caria

"Hair loss". 1st place in the category "Conceptual photo". By Michael Knudsen

"Migration". 2nd place in the category "Wildlife", series. By Elisabetta Gatti

"Fences". 1st place in the category "Abstraction". Author Romain Torne