The best works of the MonoVisions Photography Awards 2019 competition

The international black-and-white photography competition MonoVisions Photography Awards named the winners of 2019. The best in the category "Single Photo" was the landscape shot "Element" by Swiss photographer Romain Thorne, who captured the first glimpses of the sun after a snowstorm in Iceland in February this year. The victory in the nomination "Series of photographs" was won by Marina Kazakova with the work "Poetics of Childhood".

MonoVisions magazine held its contest for the third year in a row. Black and white photographs in 12 categories were accepted for participation: "People", "Street photography", "Portrait", "Travel", "Abstraction", "Architecture", "Conceptual photo", "Fine Art", "Landscapes", "Wildlife", "Nude" and "Photojournalism". The winner in the nomination "Single photo" received a prize of $ 2,000; in the nomination "Series of photos" – $ 3,000.

The organizers of the event have already announced the acceptance of applications for the MonoVisions Photography Awards 2020. The competition is open to photographers at least 18 years old, with any level of training. Its main goal is to find, recognize and reward the best monochrome photographers from all over the world. Below are the works of those honored by the MonoVisions Photography Awards this year.

1st place in the category "Abstraction" – "Fences"

The author of the photo: Romain Thorne.

2nd place in the category "Abstraction" – "Power"

The author of the photo: Zigbert Krupa.

3rd place in the category "Abstraction" – "Cocoon wrapping"

The author of the photo: Alexander Budash.

1st place in the category "Architecture" – "Midtown"

The author of the photo: Trevor Messersmith.

2nd place in the category "Architecture" – "San Francisco"

The author of the photo: Louis-Philippe Provost.

3rd place in the category "Architecture" – "Bamboo Pavilion"

The author of the photo: Shih-Hung Yang.

1st place in the category "Conceptual photo" – "Hair loss"

The author of the photo: Michael Knudsen.

2nd place in the category "Conceptual photo" – "Youth"

The author of the photo: Hanna Derecka.

3rd place in the category "Conceptual photo" – "Recreation area"

The author of the photo: Mariano Belmar Torrecilla.

1st place in the category "Fine Art" – "Brutus Walks"

The author of the photo: Daniel Castonguay.

2nd place in the category "Fine art" – "Whisper"

The author of the photo: Typhine Populou De La Forge.

3rd place in the category "Fine art" – "Oak solo"

The author of the photo: Hilda Champion.

1st place in the category "Landscapes" – "Element"

The author of the photo: Romain Thorne.

2nd place in the category "Landscapes" – "Light and shadows"

The author of the photo: Chen Su.

3rd place in the category "Landscapes" – "Sanctuary"

The author of the photo: Vicki Murray.

1st place in the category "Wildlife" – "Reflection"

The author of the photo: Daria Huxley.

2nd place in the category "Wildlife"

The author of the photo: Francisco Negroni.

3rd place in the category "Wild nature" – "Wild swing"

Photo author: Thomas Vijayan.

1st place in the category "Nude" – "Striped nude – curves and lines"

The author of the photo: Christian Libran.

2nd place in the "Nude" category

The author of the photo: Arkadiuz Akki Kulasik.

3rd place in the category "Nude" – "50 ways to leave"

The author of the photo: Fidel Komas.

1st place in the category "People" – "Sunset"

Photo author: Hoa Tran Trung.

2nd place in the category "People"

The author of the photo: Natalia Mishina.

3rd place in the category "People" – "Wedding Day"

The author of the photo: Rui Karia.

1st place in the category "Photojournalism" – "I want to be the best"

The author of the photo: Sergey Kuranov.

2nd place in the category "Photojournalism" – "Gypsy people"

The author of the photo: Pietro Di Giambattista.

3rd place in the category "Photojournalism" – "Playing in a landfill"

The author of the photo: Marco Cordon.

1st place in the category "Portrait" – "Maya"

The author of the photo: Hanna Derecka.

2nd place in the category "Portrait" – "Rasmus"

The author of the photo: Albert Sedgord.

3rd place in the category "Portrait" – "Phoebe"

The author of the photo: Ron Cooper.

1st "Street photo" – "The last jerk"

The author of the photo: Ali Najatbakhsh Esfahani.

2nd place in the category "Street photo" – "Other direction"

The author of the photo: Elide Cataldo.

3rd place in the category "Street photo" – "Duel"

The author of the photo: Rene Bernal.

1st place in the category "Travel" – "Mom at work"

The author of the photo: Tatiana Gomez.

2nd place in the category "Travel" – "It's time to hurry home"

The author of the photo: David Nam Lip Lee.

3rd place in the category "Travel" – "Invasion of nature, Halong Bay, Vietnam"

The author of the photo: Marco Beyermann Plaza.

The main winner in the nomination "Series of photographs" – "Poetics of childhood"

The author of the photo: Marina Kazakova.