'One Eyeland' Have Revealed The Winners Of Their 2020 Photography Contest (71 Pics)

A look at Canadian wildlife in motion, from bears to birds from coast to coast to coast. Such beautiful and magnificent creatures.

Milky way through the Antelope canyon rocks. Arizona, USA.

A falconer and his partner.

These are the doctors and nurses of the San Salvatore Hospital in Pesaro, Italy, the city of my birth and where I once again reside, which from day one has sadly been at the top of the COVID‑19 contagion and death charts. I photographed them in March 2020, at the end of their shifts—twelve hours without a break during their fight in an unequal war. In the quiet moments in front of my camera, these embattled individuals are in a state of total abandon, victims of an exhaustion that eats away at the body and the mind, a breathlessness that renders one disoriented, detached from time and space. They would take off their masks, caps, and gloves in front of my lens, remaining motionless, looking for some sort of normalcy amid the hell they were living. These pictures (30 portraits in total) have been published in more than 40 world leading magazines around the world. Those pictures have been also used by Dove / Unilever for its world Real Beauty Campaign named "Courage."

The Blue Insularis is a venomous pit viper species native to Southeast Asia. This is a photo of a specimen feeding on a frog, and with another snake closing in to investigate.

Reporter is a monthly magazine that focuses on investigative journalism. It covers important, often controversial subjects. In our print we used three topics that have been featured in the magazine this year and demonstrated that the information Reporter provides has the strength to change your perspective.

Neptune, God of the Sea, was traveling in his chariot drawn by 9 white horses, in front of the mouth of the Rhone, when he met a farmer who was having trouble with a black bull: "Here's my best horse; if you know how to make a friend of him, he will be an irreplaceable ally against the black bull. But remember, he comes from the Sea and he was led by a god: when he wants, let him free to come and deeply breathe his marine and divine origins". This is the legend about the horses of the Camargue. They're now bred by the gypsies and it's possible to meet them at sunset on the beaches of Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer.

In Vietnamese fishing villages, work is divided by gender. Men go out to fish, while the ladies stay back home to mend fishing nets or tend to household chores. Fishing nets in Vietnam have different colours, depending on the kind of fishes they are designed to catch. This is a photo of a fisherwoman mending blue-coloured fishing nets at home.

A fisherman in Myanmar attempts to catch fish in the waters of a mangrove forest. The afternoon light cutting through the mangrove foliage creates a magical atmosphere.

This is the story of a jellyfish who wanted to be reborn. It shows a reborn jellyfish having various troubles at the bottom of a dark sea.

A commercial project on behalf of Tyromotion Advanced Rehabilitation Technology created by Mathias Kniepeiss, the media production company boxquadrat and fine art bodypainter Johannes Stötter. After 1.5 months of planning and preparation, a team of 13 people created this unique campaign of bodypaint animals within a 14 hours shooting day.

Pandemic in the lead role of the year 2020, our present will be forever written in the history books. world history is determined by the outcome, as it has been for centuries.

Visuals created for World Mental Health Awareness Day 2020.

I start to work on a long-term project documenting the sacrifices of Kurdish Peshmerga in the fight to put down ISIS. The project has taken me to the provinces of Iraqi Kurdistan, speaking with several hundred Peshmerga, taking intimate portraits of the wounded fighters, their families, and documenting both the stories in the battle and their ongoing struggles to navigate post-conflict life. Through the work, I found stories of immense suffering. Fighters who took up arms, not because they were required to do so, but because it was right and it was what had to be done. These men, often fighting side by side with brothers, uncles, cousins, fathers, and sons, knew that the freedom and survival of their people were at stake. As they retold stories of watching family and friends killed in front of them and of battles they did not expect to survive, they simultaneously shed tears for the losses and for the pride they had in what their comrades and they had done. All most of the men showed severe physical injury. Arms, legs, and eyes lost. Bodies so riddled with bullet and shrapnel wounds that simple movement created wincing pain. These men also showed the signs of the heavy burdens of the mental traumas, of PTSD, and of memories that would not leave them. Despite all they suffered, they often said they would go back to the fight again if ever called. They would do this for their children, their families, their people, and for the wider world. Tragically, their suffering does not end after having returned home. The men face new challenges, such as getting prosthetic limbs, ongoing care, providing for their families despite their debilitating injuries, and more. They wonder, if they would give everything to help protect the world, will the world help them or forget them now that have put down their guns? I have hope that, through this work exploring conflict and post-conflict humanitarian issues, the world may better understand what these men and their families have given for the Kurdish people, the region, and, in fact, the world.

Los Angeles movement.

The journey we're on is a quest into the unknown. We cannot know where we are going, nor where we've been without seeing where we are. Seeing alone, we can only see so far in the present. The gift to be grateful toward. With all that life gives us, we realize that each chapter reveals to us who we truly are and what life is all about. "Light of Life" is the adventure that others and myself have gone through and are persisting. In the true beauty that is nature, we can see our stories lit up in front of us.

Three major parts of Hong Kong are shown in this image. Kowloon peninsula and New Territories are on both sides of Lion Rock Mountain. Hong Kong Island is on the opposite side of Victoria Harbour.