Dear Slobodan,

CONGRATULATIONS on being a Nominee at the 11th Annual International Color Awards.

5,642 entries were received from 73 countries and your work received a high percentage of votes overall. Certainly an achievement, well done! 

The Jury represented the industry's biggest names and tastemakers including Christie's, Paris; Grey Group, New York; The Art Channel, London; Ogilvy & Mather, Amsterdam; Publicis Conseil, Paris; Preus Museum, Norway; Art Beatus, Hong Kong; Netflix, Los Angeles; Whitechapel Gallery, London; and Phillips, New York who reviewed the entries online before making their nominations and honoring 709 title awards and 730 nominees in 33 categories. The Awards could not have wished for a better group of professionals to work with. 

Congratulations once again, we wish you a most successful photography year.

Basil O'Brien
Creative Director

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20161015-IMG_3756 Indianapolis

https://spark.adobe.com/page/6cpozKHejqUJ9/

Havana, Cuba

https://ndawards.net/winners-gallery/nd-awards-2017/non-professional/buildings/hm/5879 ( or copy and paste to your browser)

ND Awards 2017

You can see those photographs larger in my Black & White gallery.

Published in a LensWork book

Mannequins

11th Spider Awards

Popular Photography on Campus - April 2016

About the contest: 5,678 entries were received from 78 countries. The Jury represented the industry's biggest names and tastemakers including Contrasto, Rome; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Whitechapel Gallery, London; DDB, Berlin; Forsman & Bodenfors, Gothenburg; Art Beatus Hong Kong; DB Agency, Milan; InStyle Magazine, New York and Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna.

9th-Color-Awards

Houston Abstract II

1st Place - Popular Photography Magazine's Annual Contest

Aqua Building - Chicago

Hard copy of the magazine can be found in better hotels, boutiques and art galleries.  CS Magazine, March 2016

The printed image lost some of its vibrant colors, due to a conversion to CMYK color gamut for printing, and was cropped to match the article's format. Here is the original:

Mannequins

Here is the accompanying text:

"When local photographer Slobodan Blagojevic strolled down Michigan Avenue on a cold January night, a vast majority of tourists and locals kept their heads down while seeking warmth. However, as he approached Uniqlo, a clothing retailer on the Magnificent Mile, Blagojevic was drawn to a scene of unusually bright colors in the mannequin display.

'There was something symbolic in the almost military lineup of the mannequins: the uniformity of their body positions and heads that, even when glowing, remain faceless,' recalls Blagojevic. 'A friend of mine mentioned that it reminds him of a sci-fi movie he hasn't yet seen. It is funny how our mental associations work.'

Originally from Belgrade, Serbia (formerly Yugoslavia), Blagojevic has lived in, worked in or visited 33 countries on three continents. And while much of his career has been spent in corporate finance, Blagojevic has also won a number of photographic accolades, including a Moscow International Foto Award, a Black & White Spider Award and the International Aperture Bronze Award. When he moved to Chicago in 2004, it wasn't long until he fell in love with the city's unique architecture. 'When I walk through downtown, I usually look for strong, graphic colors,' he says. And on this night, he found them." - Brittany Farb

A faceless robot army of the future?

Aqua Building - Chicago

Digital Photo Magazine - Landscapes 2015 Competition

See it bigger here.

Notes about the photo: I was in the Grand Teton National Park in early October a few years ago. The day was gray and dark, stormy, and I thought I'd call it a day. I was probably half way on my way back to Jackson Hole, driving from the "usual suspect" points, like Oxbow Bend. I was passing by the Teton Point Turnout when I saw a break in the clouds. I stopped the car and hurriedly set up the tripod. The road there is quite elevated, relative to the field below, giving me a nice, unobscured view of the valley below.

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10th B&W Spider Awards

10TH ANNUAL BLACK AND WHITE SPIDER AWARDS HONORS PHOTOGRAPHER SLOBODAN BLAGOJEVIC FROM USA

LOS ANGELES (11/21/15) - Professional photographer Slobodan Blagojevic of USA was presented with the 10th Annual Black and White Spider Awards Third Place - Honor of Distinction in Architectural category at a prestigious Nomination & Winners PhotoShow webcast Saturday, November 21, 2015. 

The live online gala was attended by over 10,000 photography fans around the globe who logged on to watch the climax of the industry's most important event for black and white photography.

10th Annual Jury members included captains of the industry from Bonhams, Random House, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Stockholm City Museum, Annenberg Foundation, Leo Burnett, FTM Art Advisory and Fratelli Alinari who honored Spider Fellows with 505 coveted title awards in 31 categories.

"It is an incredible achievement to be selected among the best from the 7,686 entries we received this year," said Basil O'Brien, the awards Creative Director. “Slobodan's ‘Aqua,' an exceptional image entered in the Architectural category, represents black and white photography at its finest, and we're pleased to present him with the title of Honor of Distinction." Jury member Diane Ruggie from Velocebella agency added, "The gallery of winners and runners up has true stopping power."

BLACK AND WHITE SPIDER AWARDS is the leading international award honoring excellence in black and white photography. This celebrated event shines a spotlight on the best professional and amateur photographers worldwide and honors the finest images with the highest achievements in black and white photography. www.thespiderawards.com

Notes about the photo: I was in the Grand Teton National Park in early October a few years ago. The day was gray and dark, stormy, and I thought I'd call it a day. I was probably half way on my way back to Jackson Hole, driving from the "usual suspect" points, like Oxbow Bend. I was passing by the Teton Point Turnout when I saw a break in the clouds. I stopped the car and hurriedly set up the tripod. The road there is quite elevated, relative to the field below, giving me a nice, unobscured view of the valley below.

Magnificent Tetons - Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming

Moscow International Foto Awards 2015 Moscow International Foto Awards 2015

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Shooting for the Moon - San Francisco - Hyatt Regency Hotel