The top 10 images in each of the World Photographic Cup’s six categories and the Best of Nation Awards 2022 winners revealed during Imaging USA 2022.
Hundreds people watched the event in-person on Monday 17th January at Imaging USA, (National Harbor, MD) at the end of the Grand Imaging Awards Ceremony, and several thousand with friends or family in their watch-parties or homes around the world.
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The WPC CEO, on behalf of the WPC Governing Committee, announced the results. Those are in alphabetic order…you’ ll have to wait until the end of March to find out who wins.
BEST OF NATION (alphabetic order of the countries)
Team Australia Joshua Holko
Team Austria Robert Sommerauer
Team Belgium Sven Van Roy
Team Brazil Leonardo Vilela
Team Canada Michelle Valberg
Team Chile Gabriel Guzmán
Team China Yang Wang
Team Colombia Dylan Bolívar
Team Costa Rica Juan José Pucci
Team Czech Republic Miroslava Trusková
Team Denmark Lars Roed
Team Finland Marc Sabat
Team France Virgil Reglioni
Team Germany Hans Einspanier
Team Greece Julia-Anna Gospodarou
Team Guatemala Richard Gandara
Team India Swati Chakraborty
Team Italy Carlo Marchi
Team Japan Takashi Nakazawa
Team Mexico Iván Durán
Team New Zealand Amber Griffin
Team Norway Ada Marlene Arneberg Vrolijk
Team Pakistan Zaheer Abbas
Team Philippines Donell Gumiran
Team Poland Mateusz Piesiak
Team Portugal Andre Boto
Team Russia Alexander Chaldryan
Team Saudi Arabia Sarah Alrawas
Team Singapore Joanne Chua
Team Slovakia Filip Hrebenda
Team Spain Álvaro Ruiz Nogues
Team Sweden Arne Bivrin
Team The Netherlands Bas Uijlings
Team United Kingdom Tracey Lund
Team United States Cheryl Moore
Top 10 finishers (finalists) in alphabetic order
COMMERCIAL
Andre Boto, Team Portugal
Iván Durán, Team Mexico
Amber Griffin, Team New Zealand
Kazutoshi Kawakami, Team Japan
Onni Wiljami Kinnunen, Team Finland
Louis-Philippe Provost, Team Canada
Marc Sabat, Team Finland
Sven Van Roy, Team Belgium
Leonardo Vilela, Team Brazil
Tim Wallace, Team United Kingdom
ILLUSTRATION
Vladimir Beroev, Team Russia
Erich Caparas, Team United States
Alexander Chaldryan, Team Russia
Iván Durán, Team Mexico
Antti Karppinen, Team Finland
Onni Wiljami Kinnunen, Team Finland
Hanna Neret, Team Sweden
Peter Rooney, Team United Kingdom
Álvaro Ruiz Nogues, Team Spain
Ben Shirk, Team United States
NATURE
Arne Bivrin, Team Sweden
Marina Cano, Team Spain
Joshua Holko, Team Australia
Deborah MacEwen, Team Canada
Cheryl Moore, Team United States
Takashi Nakazawa, Team Japan
Mizael Palomeque, Team Mexico
Mateusz Piesiak, Team Poland
Virgil Reglioni, Team France
Michelle Valberg, Team Canada
PORTRAIT
Fernando Branquinho, Team Portugal
Jesús Castillo, Team Spain
Swati Chakraborty, Team India
Robert Coppa, Team Australia
Iván Durán, Team Mexico
Hans Einspanier, Team Germany
Alexandra Khvesyuk, Team Russia
Elin Stahre, Team Sweden
Myra Thiessen, Team United States
Iván Villagrana, Team Mexico
REPORTAGE
David Airob, Team Spain
Luís Bento, Team Portugal
Rogério Capela, Team Brazil
Kevin Dooley, Team United States
Donell Gumiran, Team Philippines
Yoshi Lizandra Rodriguez, Team Mexico
Tao Luo, Team China
Klaudia Ratzinger, Team Austria
Joseph Ruiz Cheires, Team Mexico
Ted York, Team United States
WEDDING
Michael Anthony, Team United States
Igor Bulgak, Team Russia
Mauro Cantelmi, Team Australia
Ramiro Cervantes, Team Mexico
Michał Jasiocha, Team Poland
Cong Liu, Team China
Paul McCall, Team Australia
Kenneth Mendoza, Team United States
Miguel Ponte, Team Portugal
Yang Wang, Team China