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The Inspiring Photographs by the Winners of the 2016 Monochrome Awards (NSFW)

Chris Gampat
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Last updated on 01/16/2017
01/16/2017
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Vertical Horizon by Michel Kirch (France)
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Last Updated on 01/16/2017 by Chris Gampat

The winners of the 2016 Monochrome Awards were announced today. Of course, lots of the images are also really incredible. We’ve got a bunch of them rounded up right here.

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Wildlife 3rd Place Winner on the forest floor by Arkadiusz Kikulski (Poland)

1st Place Winner – Abstract Photographer of the Year 2016 Spoon by Oksana Moroziuk (Russian Federation)

1st Place Winner – Architecture Photographer of the Year 2016 Torre di Pisa by Ronny Behnert (Germany)

1st Place Winner – Conceptual Photographer of the Year 2016 Reincarnation by Dmytro Sobokar (Ukraine)

1st Place Winner – Fashion : Beauty Photographer of the Year 2016 (untitled) by Piotr Musial (Poland)

1st Place Winner – Landscapes Photographer of the Year 2016 Behind the Wall by Grant Galbraith (Australia)

1st Place Winner – Nature Photographer of the Year 2016 (untitled) by Francesco De Leonardis (Israel)

1st Place Winner – Nude Photographer of the Year 2016 Look at me by Vassilis Pitoulis (Greece)

1st Place Winner – People Photographer of the Year 2016 Cuban school of classical ballet by Fulvio Bugani (Italy)

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1st Place Winner – Photomanipulation Photographer of the Year 2016 The Bright Side of Earth by Alice Zilberberg (Canada)

1st Place Winner – Portrait Photographer of the Year 2016 Portrait of Elena by Agata Serge (Poland)

1st Place Winner – Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2016 Go for fight by PANOS LASKARAKIS (Greece)

Abstract 2nd Place Winner Concrete Cross by Florian W. Mueller

Abstract 3rd Place Winner Stuttgart Library by HEIKO HELLWIG (Germany)

architecture 3rd Place Winner Towers by Artur Sikora (Ireland)

Archtecture 2nd Place Winner Order within chaos – Sêrtar by Fong Tsz Kin Rick (Hong Kong)

Conceptual 2nd Place Winner the Game by Michel Kirch (France)

Conceptual 3rd Place Winner Cleaning the Buddha by Gunarto Gunawan (Indonesia)

Fashion 2nd Place Winner Disappearing Dress by Aleksey Dovgulya (Russian Federation)

Fashion 3rd Place Winner Romi3 by Martin Krystynek (Slovakia)

Fine art 2nd Place Winner CELLO #2 by Melanie-Jane Frey (France)

Fine art 3rd Place Winner Bass Rock by rohan reilly (Ireland)

Landscape 2nd Place Winner The magic of the night by Isabella Tabacchi (Italy)

Landscapes 3rd Place Winner structures by alexandre manuel

Nature 2nd Place Winner Humanity by john gubertini (Italy)

Nature-3rd-Place-Winner-Irregulars-by-Vesa-Pihanurmi-Finland

Nude-2nd-Place-Winner-Lux-veritatis-tenebrarum-victrix-by-Thomas-Holm-Denmark

Nude 3rd Place Winner Echospace by Paulius Stefanovicius (Lithuania)

People 2nd Place Winner chimney sweep by Marzena Kolarz (Poland)

President Obama departs the White House- DC

Photojournalism 2nd Place Winner John Doe by olga severin (Germany)

Photojournalism 3rd Place Winner Search And Rescue- A Hand Coming Out Of The Sky by Alessandro Barteletti (Italy)

Photomanipulation 2nd Place Winner Grass, from the series A Micro Odyssey by Marco Castelli

Photomanipulation 3rd Place Winner Archinomie by Anna B Gregorczyk (Poland)

Portrait 2nd Place Winner Eliza by Susanne Middelberg (Netherlands)

Portrait 3rd Place Winner Mama by Ewa Cwikla (Netherlands)

Pure by Mikhail Shestakov (Russian Federation) Amateur grand prize winner

Grand Prize winner: Vertical Horizon by Michel Kirch (France)

Wildlife 2nd Place Winner Racing The Storm by Tom Way (United Kingdom)
All images used with permission from the Monochrome Awards.

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.
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