AAP Magazine #50 - Shapes 2025
Shapes
Announcing Winners and Merit Awards
Winner's Gallery
Julie Wang
Echoes in Sepia
Overlapping forms dissolve into one another, creating a visual rhythm of recollection. Light and shape repeat like whispers—neither fully present nor entirely gone.
First Place winner
$500 Cash Prize
United States
Echoes in Sepia
JP Terlizzi
Mandarins Bathed in Periwinkle Violet
From the series, Tangled in Blue. As an artist with red-green color blindness, this work explores the nature of color perception, focusing on how individuals with red-green color blindness experience and interpret colors. It delves into the differences between what we see, what we think we see, and how we recognize and understand color. Paired with colorblind eyewear, it allows those with the same color deficiency to perceive a broader spectrum of colors.
Second Place Winner
$300 Cash Prize
United States
Mandarins Bathed in Periwinkle Violet
Rainmelon-Jingyi Zhang
Emei Mountain
Third Place Winner
$200 Cash Prize
United States
Emei Mountain
Merit Award's Gallery
Cristiano Bartoli
Untitled
Stephen J Rauch
At Sea on Deck Nine
An expedition ship’s top deck is a fascinating sight, dotted with a variety of devices—each with its own distinct shape, size, and purpose.
On sea days, when the journey itself takes center stage, you gain a deeper appreciation for the vessel that carries you. These photos, taken on Deck 9 during a day at sea, offer a glimpse of the ship’s elegance and the quiet, reflective moments that make the voyage as memorable as the destination.
Elisabeth Ajtay
Twins
2012
"Twins" is a minimalist photographic study, a self portrait, exploring themes of duality and subtle difference. Two meticulously carved slices of red cabbage, nearly identical yet each different in their unique sublte shapes. The image invites contemplation on the concepts of sameness and difference.
Tommi Viitala
Portrait of Lia.
Portrait photography from Vienna, Austria.
Tom van Eynde
untitled
boat
Tom van Eynde
United States
Fabien Dendiével
Untitled
Frank Machalowski
Bauhaus Interior#3
The 'Bauhaus-Dessau' series has won many awards in recent years (including a second place at the Sony World Photography Awards). There are architectural photographs of the Bauhaus University and the Masters' Houses of the Bauhaus artists in Dessau. Various photographic techniques were used (analogue and digital).
Florian Kriechbaumer
Suburban Dystopia
A purpose-built villa community on the outskirts of Dubai utilizing identical designs for the houses, with a two color pattern and a rectangular access street system.
Syan Hu
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Untitled
Syan Hu
United Kingdom
Ralf Dreier
Untitled
Michael Hrankowski
Desert Shadows #1
Palm Springs, California
Bolko Stolberg
Untitled
Bolko Stolberg
United States
Alicia Paley
Untitled
Patrick J. Cicalo
Untitled
Patrick J. Cicalo
United States
Tebani Slade
A Leaf Still LIfe No.2
Mariana Basurto
Untitled
HIROTO FUKUDA
Japanese crane
A simple and beautiful image of a crane was captured against a background of pure white snow.
Jeff Schewe
Butterfly on a Palm Leaf
Christer Björkman
Fallen cloud 1
On a dull winters day with nothing(?) to photograph I started to see clouds that had fallen to the ground. I started to photograph. Here is the result.
Christer Björkman
Sweden
Alexandra Schmid
Mural No.1
Alexandra Schmid
Switzerland
Lisa Donneson
Saran Wrap
Formless shape. Digital photograph.
Lisa Donneson
United States
Jaime Nisenbaum
Love Rocks Number One
Jaime Nisenbaum
United States
Thank You!
