World’s Best Portrait Photographers: VANCE, RIBEIRO, DIMANOCHIE / 2024 Art Collectors Choice Awards
Artists from 62 countries competed in the 2024 ART COLLECTORS CHOICE AWARDS. 20 international art collectors scored 50 categories of online images covering drawing, painting, sculpture, digital and photography.
The winning works will be revealed in this column one category at a time.
The ART COLLECTORS CHOICE AWARDS winners in CATEGORY 42. NONMANIPULATED PHOTOGRAPHY — HUMAN represent USA, BRAZIL & NIGERIA.
BIO OF 1ST PLACE WINNER: Of Italian descent, David Vance has been surrounded by the atmosphere of his heritage since childhood. The painting, the sculpture, the music and the literature of his world exposed him at an early age to all the classics in observing life. He sees beauty through the eyes of his ancestors and creates beauty in their vision.
Although during his fifty plus year career he has had commercial success in advertising, editorial and portrait photography, shooting campaigns and photographing celebrities, at his core is the heart and sensibility of an artist.
He shares his home in Miami, Florida with his husband, Kyle Plyler. David’s fine art prints have been exhibited in galleries from Palm Springs to Paris. They are also available at www.davidvanceprints.com
There are 16 coffee table books of his work. They are VISIONS, THE ULTIMATE BOOK OF NUDES, THE WOODS, DAVID VANCE/PHOTOGRAPHS, TIMELESS, HEAVENLY BODIES, EROTIC DREAMS, MEN AND GODS, MASCULINE BEAUTY, EMOTION, JUNGLE FEVER, MEN AND WATER, PRIVATE PERFORMANCES, DAVID VANCE/BEAUTIES AND XPOSED.
WINNER WEBSITES:
DAVID VANCE http://www.davidvanceprints.com
THIAGO RIBEIRO BRAZIL http://thiagoribeiroph.myportfolio.com
ART COLLECTORS can see the hundreds of winning images and corresponding contact info to all the artists here::
In 2024, ART COLLECTORS CHOICE AWARDS had submissions from these 62 countries: Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Democratic Republic Of Congo, Denmark, England, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tobago, Togo, Trinidad, Turkey, United Arabian Emirates, UK, Ukraine, USA, Vietnam, Wales, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
20 international art collectors asked to score art:
Andrew Cameron & Marcus Hamilton — Australia
Jason Stuckless — Toronto, Ontario
Floyd M. Elwell, III — Rancho Mirage, California
Jan Gold — Roseville, California
Michael Gregg Michaud — Los Angeles, California
Judi Evans — Los Angeles, California
Alec Wilder — Los Angeles / Las Vegas / New Orleans
Eddie Dyer — Los Angeles / Las Vegas / New Orleans
Michelle Foglesong Wilson — Las Vegas
Thomas Zora — Las Vegas
Paul Iacono — Chicago
Ron Lundin — Naples, Florida / Chicago, Illinois / Vail, Colorado
Jay H. Brewer — Orlando, Florida
Celeste Miller — St. Petersburg, Florida
Alan McMullen — Fannettsburg, Philadelphia
Brian Townley — Waco, Texas
Blaine L. Richards-Miller — Wichita Falls, Texas
Aimee Unakis — Georgetown, Illinois
Karen Valentine — Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Mitchell Antesky — Toledo Ohio
