In pictures: Facing the camera
LensCulture announces the results of the third annual Portrait Awards, with the jury selecting 14 photographers to be featured in an exhibition at Photo London.
Rachel Cox/LensCulture Exposure Awards 2016
LensCulture has announced the results of the third annual Portrait Awards. Rachel Cox's Shiny Ghost, documenting the final years of her grandmother’s life, when she had a degenerative brain disease, won the series-of-work category.
Ethan James Green/LensCulture Exposure Awards 201
Young New Yorkers by Ethan James Green, of the United States came second.
Amanda James/LensCulture Exposure Awards 2016
Amanda James's Sweet Little Lies, a series on being a mother, a wife, and an artist, came third. "The daily snapshots of the Utah landscapes and the parameters of my home serve as a glimpse into my interior concerns," she says.
Justine Tjallinks/LensCulture Exposure Awards 2016
Justine Tjallinks, of the Netherlands, won the single-image category with Nude (Reach), looking at living with albinism. "Nude explores the duality between the vulnerability and strength within oneself," she says. "The soft colour palette represents the vulnerability, whilst the strength and determination is found in the body language."
Chris de Bode/LensCulture Exposure Awards 2016
Chris de Bode's portrait of Anoel, seven, who lives in an internally displaced persons' camp, came second.
Laura Pannack//LensCulture Exposure Awards 2016
Laura Pannack's Chayla in Shul, an 11-year-old Hasidic Jewish girl in synagogue, came third.
Hannah Modigh/LensCulture Exposure Awards 2016
Each jury member also selected one photographer to be awarded special distinction. Anne Bourgeois-Vignon, global digital director, Magnum Photos, chose Hannah Modigh's Hurricane Season.
Barbara Peacock/LensCulture Exposure Awards 2016
Alessia Glaviano, senior photo editor, Vogue Italia, L’Uomo Vogue chose Barbara Peacock's Hometown: 1982-2015. Photographers from more than 120 countries participated, and an international jury selected 14 for an exhibition at Photo London, 18-22 May.