The 20 Best Winning Photos from the International Photography Awards 2011

The International Photography Awards are sponsored by the Lucie Foundation, whose mission is to discover innovative photography, honor great photographers, and promote photography in general. This year, they received 8,000 submissions. A whopping 70 jurors judged these submissions. Let's take a gander at the 20 best award-winning photos. (more at America's Best Blogger.)

• 1.

  

  "Remote Control"
  Claudio Allia

• 2.

  

  "A Night in Tahrir Square"
  Jacapo Quaranta

• 3.

  

  "Let Them Eat Cake"
  John Wright

• 4.

  

  "ELEMENTARZ"
  Karolina Karlic

• 5.

  

  "Pure Blood"
  Ximena Etchart

• 6.

  

  "Chicago"
  Ball & Albanese

• 7.

  

  "Agent Orange"
  Ed Kashi

• 8.

  

  "Buddies"
  Serhat Demiraglu

• 9.

  

  "Go, My Beauty"
  Gordon Welters

• 10.

  

  "Warsaw Chopin Airport"
  Kacper Kowalski

• 11.

  

  "DESERTIC CITY"
  Joanne Pouzenc

• 12.

  

  "Escuela Creer Down"
  Morganna Magee

• 13.

  

  "Where Ships Were Born"
  Paul Alexander Knox

• 14.

  

  "Gulf Oil Spill"
  Daniel Beltra

• 15.

  

  "Strange Things Are Smoking"
  Karen Divine

• 16.

  

  "Innocence"
  Claudio Allia

• 17.

  

  "Nazi Americana"
  Julie Platner

• 18.

  

  "Pastoral Scene"
  Nikolas Despiniadis

• 19.

  

  "Jean Rochefort"
  Nadav Kander

• 20.

  

  "Noorderlicht, Spitsbergen, Norway"
  Philip Harvey