All about photo magazine #49 B&W Photo Winner
About all photos The winners of their latest competition have been revealed, AAP magazine #49: b&WCelebrating the timeless art of black and white photography. According to the photo about all, the winning artists “provide a global perspective on the permanent power of the monochrome.”
We were designed by creative compositions and striking use of light and shade in many winning photos. In this slide show, we share the top three winners with some of our favorite merit award recipients. To know more about the competition or to see the entire gallery of the winners, go to the competition Website,
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First place winner
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Photographer: Astrid Verhof (Netherlands)
Topic: balance
Description: The artwork ‘Balance’ was shot in March 2025, in the beautiful peninsula de Jandia, Fuereventura, Spain. For all my artwork, I am searching for my relationship and relationship with the natural world, usually portraying a figure that always bends somewhere between the natural and an artificial element, preventing it from actually connecting. She cannot leave behind like a mark from the world.
I am used to do single work to experience my personal connections for the landscape without any distraction. Even though I give a treasure to that connection and it works for me in this way, on rare occasions I want to work with an additional model. This is the result of special currency movement, dancing together. This changed the experience: A dance of balance shows a relationship with each other -with a landscape. We are another opponent at the same time. Contrast and connection, belief and dependence. In the volcanic landscape, where the barren meet with beauty, they feel the force of nature within and inside, and around themselves.
Second place winner
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Photographer: Antonio Denti (Italy)
Topic: Hard life (near Zagora, near Morocco)
Description: Souvenir makers work on the edge of the Sahara Desert, as in a nearby small town, their families live. “Harder Lives” is part of a comprehensive project called ‘everything and nothing’, which tries to capture the essence due to Little Lives – our small life – in the backdrop of the global economy and in a large -scale new industrial revolution in the backdrop of the global economy and in very different settings. In this case, a small village in Morocco that lived away from minimum (dates, palms, small herring, minor caravan) and now moved to global tourism as all types of people travel there from all places in the world to see the magic of Sahara.
Third place winner
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Photographer: Lin Breightfeller (United States)
Topic: Stacey and Miss Kitty
Description: It is from the image, “Stacey and Miss Kitty”, “Peepal Eye No,”, which is a collection of pictures created in the middle of the nineties in the middle of friends, family and acquaintances. Some are clear, and others are protesters. These pictures bring me back in earlier times and help me imagine my early adult years and how people come out of our lives, and how do something live. Each holds a place in the list of my memory.
Merit award
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Photographer: Florian Crychbumor (Germany)
Topic: Horoscope
Description: Craig is one of the last remaining super tuskers on Earth – elephants whose tusks weigh more than 100 pounds and literally scratch the ground. At the age of 53, he is no longer a young man who probably has a natural lifetime of a decade, but bears himself with a calm, appearance. During my visits to Amboseli’s incredible landscape, I faced many encounters with them, documenting the work of ecosystem and ranger work. In the previous years, three major trackers have been killed after crossing Tanzania, where trophy hunting and human-welfare struggle are the danger. Craig has been leaving its huge legacy for more than five decades, but is up to us to ensure that his successors will also be able to do so.
Merit award
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Photographer: Yalva segraine (Sweden)
Topic: I only see what I want to see
Description: The image “I only see what I want to see” symbolically describes those who blindly close all the facts and stick to their own version of reality.
Merit award
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Photographer: Monica Marozine (Lithuania)
Topic: Excuse
Description: My artistic practice merges my scientific expertise with a love for photography, creating a unique art form that I see as a type of alchemy. I include the pine tree resin in my print, conserving warmth and durability by preserving images, a symbol of my Lithuanian roots and my relationship with the natural world. My work often contains black and white photography, which creates a sense of cool, solitude and reflection, complementing by the touch of the resin that the audience is transported on the linen, indifferent days. Through these images, I detect the subjects of memory, identity and poetic irony of life, inspired by my lifelong attraction with the scenario of Caronian spit and the mysterious, powerful appearance of women and nature.
Merit award
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Photographer: Klaus Language (Germany)
Topic: Steam iv
Description: The exit cloud from the mitigation tower of a cooking plant in a steel mill in Duisburg, Germany develops an impressive dynamic. Soon, new clouds are formed, after hours, day after day. As part of a long -term project, I caught these impressive clouds from various approaches.
Merit award
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Photographer: Giuseppe Cardoni (Italy)
Topic: Circus magic
Description: Circus is a large expanded family that all belong to each other, not only by affection but also by great passion for their art. My main interest was to explain more about the atmosphere than the artists by focusing on moments of preparation, break, concentration rather than shows, however, mentioned. In this way, it seemed to preserve me at least the secret and magic that catches the viewer when the curtain opens.
Merit award
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Photographer: Kevin lyl (United States)
Topic: City Life 20472
Description: Cities are often filled with drama, some more than others. The intensity of the play within the city’s life is balanced by simple, low dramatic expansion that can provide food for ideas, humor, comfort or surprise. I present some of these simple comments.
Merit award
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Photographer: Elena Donskaya (Russia)
Topic: Gaunt
Description: Inspired by painting paintings of a young girl’s Renaissance-era by Petras Christus.
Merit award
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Photographer: Ralph Draer (Germany)
Topic: Nindorf bath jetty
Description: The project is a spin-off from the “two-minute by-thee” sea overrouuding project, “which is about the long exposure of the coastal areas over a two-minute exposure time. The resulting minimum black and white pictures show the viewer an unusual view of the sea. The simplicity of images, in particular, mainly focuses on the eye, but leaves enough space to prevent it from looking very effective at the same time. As a result, pictures move away from reality and encourage the viewer to use their imagination, which gives them an opportunity to combine which is actually depicted with their feelings and ideas, resulting in a very personal viewing experience for every viewer.
Merit award
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Photographer: Yanitsa genova (Bulgaria)
Topic: Stuck in the frame
Description: There is an attempt to enter harmony with the Half-Vigilant world. The photos were taken in ten years. The one who unites them is street photography, partial visibility and the geometric system of everyday life. I indicate the camera what my inner world changes. I am able to see everything, both the most terrible and most beautiful. I am here
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Photographer: William rope (France)
Topic: Ethiopia, singular man
Description: The black-white work of William Rope in Mali, Senegal and Ethiopia crosses the simple documentary illustration. It is an introspection discovery for the other, presented with a dive, rare view and emotional intensity in the intimacy of African faces. At the intersection of photography, shadow theater and classical painting, the rope manifests souls instead of the body. The rope only does not take the face picture: he wants to capture what he says to the internal appearance of his subjects. Through a drama of light and shadow, he extracts a form of silent poetry, often timeless. Their black and white are deep, almost charcoal -like, and ends the feeling of suspended time. The face starts emerging from a dream or a distant memory. Thus he creates a universe between reality and fantasy, often bends with sadness.
Merit award
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Photographer: Beemi young (United States)
Topic: Mobius
Description: The rich tonal of a black and white image has always been a source of inspiration for me. In my search of biological patterns in nature, I am ready for the game of light in gardens around my house. The negative place in each image is as important as the plant itself creates an important counterpoint for the plant and the leaves.
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Photographer: Luciano Gerini (Italy)
Description: At the end of the 19th century, Rome became the capital of Italy. Therefore it required new government offices, more factories, more workforces, warehouses, general markets, energy suppliers and so on. A new area turned into a well organized site, with a dense network of connections to serve the new Rome. In decades, definitely felt.
After more than a century, some structures have become obsolete due to new techniques and increasing needs. The municipality and landowners want to reuse all these buildings and open places, preserving as much old forms and styles as possible. The power plant has now become a museum, the area used as a gas depot has been converted into an event space and offices, and the large butcher shop has become a mixture between a museum and an exhibition location. Of course, some things have been lost, such as: with its lights and handcuffs, the old great market environment in the morning, the huge gas tank tanks that replace the horizon, the traffic of trucks, etc. can be interesting to know that in the Roman ships, there were doors and warehouses here for Roman ships.
So, what am I doing here, taking pictures? This is my city, and I have a degree in geography, so the real question is: Why does everything work so well here since ancient times? What have we lost, and what can be the future for this place? Can photos be witness to change? I am working on it.
