Marie Rime is a talented photographer and artist, who was born in 1989 in Charmey and currently based in Lausanne, Switzerland. She received her BA in Photography at Ecal, Switzerland. This serie of images, named Armures, represent women wearing armors. These costumes, realised with everyday objects, are the starting point of a reflexion of the relationship between power, war and ornament. These women loose their identity and become the support of their clothing

Tulsa - Louis Canadas, France - Finalist, 2011

Here are the top 20 portraits most memorable to Steven Lee, founder of the Kuala Lumpur International Photoawards, selected from past winners and finalists. The year’s award theme “Seeing Beauty” asks the following: Do different cultures and communities see and react to beauty differently or does there exist a universal formula that escapes boundaries?

Beautiful female portraits by Dani Diamond, talented self taught photographer based in waterbury, Connecticut, USA. He shoot a lot of portrait and landscape photography.

Beautiful female portraits by Ann Nevreva, talented self taught photographer based in Odessa, Ukraine.

Beautiful portraits by Alexandra Kukushkina, talented photographer based in Moscow, Russia who shoot wedding, portrait and family photography.

Amazing children portraits by Elena Shumilova, architector and talented semi-professional photographer based in Moscow, Russia.

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s recent exhibitions include Sepia International, New York City, the RISD Museum, Newark Art Museum, 2009 Guangzhou Biennial of Photography, China, Tang Museum and the Smithsonian Institute Museum of National History.

Ruslan Varabyou is a young German photographer, based in Düsseldorf. He specializes in portrait, lifestyle and fashion photography.

Flora Borsi is a talented 20-year-old Hungarian photographer and student in Budapest, Hungary who has found a wonderful outlet for her extraordinarily creative imagination photography and photo manipulation. The editor software is just a tool to complete her pictures, Flora want to make an image, which looks like a real, unedited photo.

Variable Face is an amazing project by Maria Francesca Melis, talented portrait and fine art photographer based in Las Plassas, Italy.

Federica Giordano is an emerging fashion photographer and retoucher born in Italy, who always love the idea of freezing memory, capturing the beauty of places she visited and people she met. She is addicted to portraiture and especially fashion portraits.

Amazing portrait photographs of beautiful womens by Pauly Pholwises, semi-professional photographer based in Chaska, Minnesota who captured the amazing fashion portraits.

Amazing women portraits by Thomas Babeau, professional fashion photographer from Paris, France who makes beautiful portraits.

Kb Bishara is a twenty-something year old photographer and filmmaker who based between the UK and Middle-East.

Born and raised in Encinitas, California, Brad Swonetz attended the University of California at Santa Barbara where he pursued two of his great passions – surfing and sculpture. After finishing in Santa Barbara, he moved to LA to assist photographers and learn the trade. Now Brad lives with his wife/assitant/cfo/producer in a beach town in southern California. He loves to surf, play ping pong, pool, and the occasional round of wii. Brad has always had a passion for people and their environments, and loves to show others how interesting the seemingly mundane can be.

Stunning portraits by Roman Kargapolov, student, artist and talented photographer from Russia.

Very emotional black and white portrait photography by Gianluca Napoli, talented photographer from Catania who currently based in Barcelona, Spain.

Beautiful portraits by Parker Fitzgerald, talented photographer and freelance illustrator and designer from Colorado Springs who currently based in Portland, USA.

Milosz Wozaczynski was born in 1975 in Szczecin, currently living in Brussels. Self-thought photographer. In his work he mainly engages in portraits and creative photography. He usually uses large format camera with classic photosensitive materials but also x-ray films. He is a winner of a golden medal award in the Prix de la Photographie Paris PX3 and a laureate of this year's Hasselblad Masters competition for the series of artistic wedding portraits. His works are being shown at several exhibitions in and outside Poland. His newest works can be seen in the Hasselblad Masters v3 album and this year's Photokina fair in Cologne, Germany.

Natalia, Sentenced for Stabbing, Juvenile prison for Girls, Ukraine 2009

Michal Chelbin is a professional photographer, who was born in Israel, 1974. Her portrait sittings sometimes lasted for hours, Chelbin never asking about the crime committed until after the portrait was finished. Sailboats and Swans is currently on display at Andrea Meislin Gallery in New York through January 19th, 2013. The monograph was published this fall by Twin Palms Publishers.