Professional 1st Place Fine Art / Portraiture - Roderik Henderson, Netherlands:



Professional 2nd Place Fine Art / Portraiture - Martin Bogren, Sweden:










Professional 3rd Place Fine Art / Portraiture - Hans de Vries, Netherlands:








Professional 1st Place Fine Art / Conceptual and Constructed - Tammy Baker, UK:

Series: Living with Wolfie, 2008. The series documents my response to the presents that Wolfie, my beloved cat, brings into the home. At first, I experienced some kind of horror: these dead creatures waiting for me in different parts of my house. Then I looked at Wolfie and tried to understand the instincts which brought them there. It reminded me of the difficulty I have in understanding the behaviours of the opposite sex or of a different tribe. At the time, my ex-partner had been unfaithful several times and I saw some parallels in coming to terms with the difficult habits of the other, whilst also accepting their difference. The ceremonial aspect of these photographs is similar to the Victorian Memento Mori photographs of deceased loved ones, using flowers and locks of hair to preserve the memory of the living. With these images, I am making a photograph from a shrine, engaging with the changing patterns of nature to bring myself closer to the memory of death and of loss. They may also be a way of acknowledging certain destructive behaviours within myself, as I become Wolfie’s accomplice in playing with the dead animals.










Professional 3rd Place Fine Art / Conceptual and Constructed - Angelika Sher, Israel: