“PORTRAITS” 2025
WINNERS
In these winning portraits, the depth of emotion, character, and connection takes center stage, where every glance, gesture, and subtle expression becomes the heart of the image.
GOLD WINNER
Wind of Wasteland by
Richard Gibson
Country: 🇵🇹 Portugal
Fine Art artist and Fashion photographer with a strong passion for visual aesthetics
Richard Gibson is a polystylistic young author with a mature artistic style. He specializes in fine art and fashion photography. A surrealist visionary with a background in contemporary art, he excels in mixed media, seamlessly blending photography and graphic design to create minimalist compositions in color and black and white reminiscent of 20th-century art movements.
SILVER WINNER
Whisper Underwater by
Arman Zhenikeyev
Country: 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan
Arman Zhenikeyev is a fine art and portrait photographer with about 20 years of experience. He tries to express impressions and feelings about the beauty and harmony of the world. The foundation of his photographs is people, including lifestyle, classic, nude, and fine art abstracts. He loves to make any commercial shooting a little bit arty, using light, shadows, and reflections.
BRONZE WINNER
Lost Beauty by
Mehdi Zavvar
Country: 🇮🇷 Iran
I am a portrait photographer, but I enjoy all genres of photography as a visual art for communication and storytelling. Photography is currently my greatest passion, and I have been practicing in this genre for about 5 years. In most of my captures, my focus has been on the lives of individuals, the hidden emotions in their gaze, hands, faces, and even their clothing. I have tried to make the photos expressive and break the seal of silence on the thousands of unspoken words of these individuals. I then showcase the dark side of their lives. The sorrowful gazes display the lives of people who did not want to sink into the depths of misery, whose only refuge is the prison of their problems. The lifeless faces of strangers who have no way out other than gradual death carry the voice of these individuals whose unheard silence contains thousands of messages.