Individual top-10 finalists at the 2017 World Photographic Cup (WPC), sponsored by the FEP – Federation of European Professional Photographers, PPA – Professional Photographers of America, the UAPP – United Asian Professional Photography and the AIPP – Australian Institute of Professional Photography, have been finally announced on January 9th, 2017, in San Antonio, Texas, USA , during the PPA grand national awards event, at Imaging USA.
This year, 21 teams have at least one finalist image!
They presented the announcement the members of the WPC governing committee Bert Behnke, Don Dixon, Don MacGregor and Bent Nygaard Larsen.
The top 10 images in the six categories went to (all finalists are in alphabetical order):
Commercial
- Barbara Breitsameter USA
- Diogo Freitas Portugal
- Amber Griffin New Zealand
- Carlos Herrejón Mexico
- Dušan Holovej Slovakia
- Lluis Oliver Fabrega Spain
- Lupi Spuma Austria
- Uli Staiger Germany
- Michelle Trull USA
- Ricardo Urroz Mexico
Illustration
- José Almeida Portugal
- Félix Alejandro Hernández Rodríguez Mexico
- Charmaine Heyer Australia
- Lee Howell UK
- Stanislav Hricko Slovakia
- Diamantino Jesus Portugal
- Antti Karppinen Finland
- Kazutoshi Kawakami Japan
- José Manuel Ortega Spain
- Uli Staiger Germany
Nature
- Ann Coppens Belgium
- Xie Dacai China
- Sergey Degtyarev Russia
- Liette Gilbert Canada
- Andreas Kalvig Anderson Norway
- Carlos Resende Portugal
- Daniel Rodrigues Portugal
- Pepe Soho Mexico
- Søren Sviland Norway
- Liyun Yu USA
Portrait
- Dmitrii Ageev Russia
- Fernando Branquinho Portugal
- André Brito Portugal
- Lauren Del Vecchio USA
- Nikki Harrison Canada
- Christopher Ian Australia
- Eelena Malysheva Russia
- Martina Nemčeková Slovakia
- Bjørn Tore Stokke Norway
- Min Zhang China
Reportage
- Nely Ariza Spain
- Max Bosse Austria
- Oldřich Bubák Czech Republic
- Dario Caruso France
- Miloš Fic Czech Republic
- Laura Gabriela Olmedo Macip Mexico
- Peter Svoboda Slovakia
- Vincenzo Tessarin Italy
- Léa Torrieri France
- Goh Wee Seng Singapore
Wedding
- Igor Bulgak Russia
- Lee Howell UK
- William Lambelet France
- Miguel Matos Portugal
- Carlos Felipe Ortíz Morel Spain
- Raymond Pang Singapore
- Terese Samuelsen Norway
- Shinichi Shimomiya Japan
- Xiannian Wan China
- Andreas Zopf Austria