Announcing the Winners & Finalists: LensCulture Portrait Awards 2014

The Results Are In! Photographers from over 80 countries participated in our search for The New Photographic Portrait, and our international jury found an amazingly accomplished and diverse selection. The photographers presented here hail from 17 countries, and were chosen after reviewing literally thousands of photographs sent in from around the world — each has a wonderful story to tell.  Click through to see the full-screen slideshows. Portfolio Category 1st Prize - Marius Schultz Norway, from the series "First There Was Nothing"   2nd Prize - Hossein Fatemi Iran, from the series "Veiled Truths"   3rd Prize - Tsutomu Yamagata Japan, from the series "Thirteen Orphans"   Single Image Category 1st Prize: Clare Benson United States From the series "The Shepherd's Daughter"   2nd Prize: Marc Thirouin France From the series "Las Mujeres"   3rd Prize: Ulrik Tofte Denmark From the series "The Key is not to Blink"   2014 Portrait Award Finalists Finalists (in alphabetical order):  Kevin Barton,Tony Corocher, Tommaso Del Croce, Sebastian Cvitanic, K.K. Depaul, Ion Dikaiasos, Enrico Fabian, Hans Gindlesberger, Justin Gonyea, Vincent Gouriou, Tatiana Grigorenko, Jessica Todd Harper, Aoife Herrity, Youngho Kang, An-Sofie Kesteleyn, Tuva Kleven, Coco Martin, Isabel M. Martinez, Mimi Mollica, Nina Roeder, Michelle Rogers Pritzl, Delphine Schacher, Brian Shumway, Sebastiano Tomada, Alan Thomas Duncan Wilkie