Category: Best Photography Book Award Winner Gerd LudwigFreelance "The Long Shadow of Chernobyl"
Finalist Justyna MielnikiewiczSelf-published "Woman with a monkey"
Finalist David BergmanPSG "BON JOVI: WORK"
Finalist Kacper KowalskiMigavka "SIDE EFFECTS"
Finalist Amy Toensing, Stephanie Sinclair, Diane Cook, Maggie Steber, Jodi Cobb, Erika Larsen, Beverly Joubert, Lynn Johnson, Lynsey Addario, Carolyn Drake, Kitra Cahana, Photo Editor: Elizabeth Krist, Design Director: Marianne R. Koszorus, Senior Editor: Hilary Black, Editor: Gail Spilsbury, Writers: Marian Holmes, Rena SilvermanNational Geographic "Women of vision"
Finalist Pierpaolo MitticaEditor/Publisher: Comune de Pordenone "Ahes/Ceneri"
Finalist Robert NickelsbergPrestel Verlag "Afghanistan: A distant war"
Finalist Zun LeeCeiba "Father figure"
Winner Freelance
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Photographer Gerd Ludwig is suited up with protective clothing for a 15-minute entry into the highly contaminated Reactor #4 – the maximum he and the shift workers are allowed to spend inside for a single day. [Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Ukraine 2005]
