“Best Photographer 2009″ – Winners’ Works"

In May, 14th in Moscow were awarded best photographers of 2009. Their works became the material for a great closing exhibition “Best Photographer 2009″.

14500 works and 2000 photographers from 29 countries nominated for a prize. Winners have been defined in 12 professional and 10 amateur categories. Additionally there were presented prizes in the following nominations: “Grand Prize”, “Photo of the Year”, “Photo Series of the Year”, “Discovery of the Year”, “Special Prize For Students”. Winners of key nominations received not only considerable money prizes but unique silver statues “Argentum” as well.

Architecture

1st place
Alexander Petrosyan
“Vantovy Bridge in St. Petersburg”

Genre Photography
1st place
Vladimir Smirnov
“Root out”

Landscape
1st place
Konstantin Dyachkov
“Gates of Kolodozyorsky churchyard” 


Portrait
1st place
Alexey Sorokin
“Beauty”

2nd place
Oleg Videnin
“Farewell bell”

3rd place
Victor Zagumennov
“Faces of northeners”

2nd place
Daniil Komov
untitled

2nd place
Alexander Petrosyan
“Different people”

3rd place
Stanislav Dvir
“Southern-Sudanese refugees”

Wedding Photography
1st place
Konstantin Koreshkov
“Alina”

2nd place
Oleg Samoylov
“His victory”

Art photography
1st place
Alexander Kagan
“Mystik”

2nd place
Sayid Atabekov
“Battle for the square”

3rd place
Ivan Kurinnoy
“NY”

Series
Grand Prize
Irina Popova
“Another family”


2nd place
Emil Gataullin
“Province”


3rd place
Alexey Myakishev
“Tskhinvali”


Amateur category
Animalistic Photography
1st place
Igor Guschin
“Antarctic, summer, beach”

3rd place
Dmitry Utkin
“Whangdoodle”

Architecture
1st place
Vladislav Musienko
“Man, space, time”

2nd place
Oleg Baraboshin

3rd place
Evgeny Shapkin
“City”

Genre Photography

1st place
Emil Gataullin
“Province”

2nd place
Konstantin Kaminsky
“Street sport in the Island of Freedom”

3rd place
Kirill Ponomaryov
“Dreaming”

Macro photography
1st place
Ruslan Salikhov
“Dark Forest”

2nd place
Andrey Chistyakov
“The last trolleybus”

3rd place
Alexander Bolgov
“Lunch formation”

Still life
1st place
Marina Volodko
“Fragility devoted”

2nd place
Maria Pleshkova
“Breath”

3rd place
Vlad Antonov
“Things-aren’t-in-themselves”

Portrait
1st place
Dmitry Baidachny
untitled

2nd place
Roman Nimulin
“Cunning farmer”

3rd place
Vera Fetischeva
“Drafts of subconsciousness”

Art photography
1st place
Emil Gataullin
“Sketches”

2nd place
Vasily Kochetkov
“Shadow in the sky”

Evgenia Ponomaryova
“Burmese dreams”

Digital Processing
1st place
Dmitry Puzyryov
“PATCHwork”

2nd place
Nikolai Gorsky
“Oh, these stairs!”

3rd place
Alexey Chernyaev
“Aboriginal”

Students’ category
Grand prize
Alina Kuznetsova
“Choice” series