AAP Magazine #48 - Portrait 2025
Portrait
Announcing Winners and Merit Awards
Winner's Gallery
Carole Mills Noronha
Wonder
My father had been in Covid lockdown for months. I was finally given permission to visit him in his room. I had a newly emerged Monarch butterfly with me ready to be released. The butterfly loving grown from a tiny caterpillar in the classroom I teach. As class had finished before this butterfly emerged, I wanted to show my dad it's beauty. The butterfly temporarily encased in the glass jar, reminding me of the months iI watched dad through the window. Dad released the butterfly afterwards.
First Place winner
$500 Cash Prize
Australia
Wonder
Jesús Umbría Brito
Untitled
Second Place Winner
$300 Cash Prize
Spain
Paul Adams
Silvia
Original 20x24" Wet Plate Collodion Tintype
Third Place Winner
$200 Cash Prize
United States
Silvia
Merit Award's Gallery
Bob Stevens
Untitled
Bob Stevens
United States
Les Schmidt
Untitled
Les Schmidt
United States
Han Yang
In Between Worlds
"In Between Worlds" is a project exploring the complexities of gender and identity within the LGBTQ+ community. Through portraiture, documentary-style photography, and fashion, it examines how individuals navigate self-expression between personal and societal expectations. Featuring nonbinary participant Holli Xue, this project captures her calm exterior and vibrant inner world, reflecting the fluid and evolving nature of identity. The portrait was taken in her home in January 2025.
Nico Froehlich
Respite
A small group of youngsters unwind at the Aylesbury Estate in the late afternoon sun.
Nico Froehlich
United Kingdom
Patrick Enssle
KODA
“Koda,” a 28-year-old German volunteer, serves in a Ukrainian kamikaze drone unit. Thoughtful and introverted, he is deeply aware of the moral weight of his work. Each strike he launches leaves a mark—not on his body, but in his mind. Haunted by real-time images of death, he still fights out of solidarity. “I’m not just fighting for Ukraine,” he says. “I’m fighting for something larger—Europe, maybe even humanity.”
Susan B. Anthony
Abby, 2013
Abby Lubin is an activist and three generations of her family have lived in Troy. She and her family live in one of the poorer districts. Abby is a community organizer and is getting people together to make her neighborhood a safer place to live.
Michele Zousmer
ABANDONED ELDERLY - MEMORIES
In Romania and Bulgaria many older people are still living on old collective farms. Pensions hardly cover their daily food. They live in crumbling houses in rural villages, far from family and friends. Days are spent foraging in the forest for wild mushrooms and berries, collecting firewood and corn for their few animals. Families visit rarely because of distances. Neighbors help when they can.
It saddens me that these people are spending their last years enduring poverty alone .
Raul Cacho Oses
Young wodaabe man, Niger, 2024.
A powerful portrait of a young Wodaabe man in traditional attire, holding his ceremonial spade as he prepares for the Gerewol festival in Niger, 2024. Set against the golden Sahel landscape, his gaze reflects a sense of pride, heritage, and anticipation—capturing a fleeting moment before one of the most vibrant cultural celebrations of the Wodaabe people.
Michael Knapstein
Grandsons
From the series "Of the Earth" capturing portraits of agricultural workers made at small rural fairs and festivals in Wisconsin, USA.
Lukasz Spychala
Echoes
Models: Adriana Rogala & Patrycja Rogala
Camera: Mamiya RB67 Pro-S
Lens: Mamiya-Sekor C 90mm f/3.8
Film: Kodak Portra 400
Tom Zimberoff
Robert Flynn Johnson
Emeritus Curator, San Francisco's de Young Museum & Legion of Honor
Jelisa Peterson
Rise and Shine
A little girl lying down playing in front of her home with chickens behind her.
Jelisa Peterson
United States
Pamela Landau Connolly
Fanda Smoking
Photographed with a 4x5 View Camera, printed on Canson Baryta paper with archival inks. 22 x 29 inches.
Pamela Landau Connolly
United States
Erhan Coral
The Strength of Tradition
A woman adorned with beads stands confidently in the open, her gaze intense and unyielding. The backdrop of traditional huts and a child walking by hints at the everyday rhythms of village life. Her presence, framed by the sun and earth, represents the strength of cultural identity passed down through generations.
Brian Cassey
100 Years & 3 Weeks - Alf Neal OAM
100 year old Aboriginal Elder Alf Neal OAM sits with 3 week old great great grandson Kailan Murgha at his home in Yarrabah Australia.
In 2019 Alf was awarded ‘Medal of the Order of Australia’ for ‘Service to the Aboriginal community, particularly to the 1967 Referendum Campaign’. Alf was a member of the Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Advancement League that successfully waged a decade long fight for the referendum which eventually resulted in Indigenous peoples constitutional recognition.
Randy Bacon
"Love Your Neighbor" - Naomi
"What does love mean to me? That’s a big question. As far as love meaning something to me, it’s family and friends. Love is definitely a people thing for me because I always try to think of others. I appreciate the little stuff. Love probably means the little stuff and family." - Naomi
Ron Cooper
Untitled
Fotómetro
Lois and Carey wearing their home-made clay masks
Lois and Carey wearing their home-made clay masks, while wearing the same dress, lying on Carey's bed.
Fotómetro
United Kingdom
Olivia Mazzola
Éventail
This image is part of a photographic project entitled " La Danse des Lumières" where I use the light-painting as my main technique to portray my subjects. I love the mystery light-painting creates, a subtle play between the concealed and the discretely revealed allowing the magic of light to appear. I actually make very fluid movements like a small dance around the subjects and the outcome is always a surprise, it is literally applying brushstrokes to a dark canvas and wait for revelation.
Yixu Wang
My Wedding Photo
Under the pressure of traditional Chinese concepts and family expectations, marriage has become a measure of a woman's value. Individuals who deviate from this norm often face invisible discipline from their family, workplace, and daily life. So, I too wore a traditional gown and sat side by side with my partner, presenting the 'correct' and 'perfectly happy' wedding photo.
Migle Golubickaite
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Marc Donald
Alan Wieder
Waiting for the Bus In Havana
I took this outside of Peter Turnley's flat in Havana.
Thank You!
