Alegría y Festejos de Boda, by Ana Encinas - Night Photography, Award Winning Photography, Photo of the Day, Ana Encinas, Photography Awards

The Weight of Rising Light

In the quiet hours after a storm, the air often holds a strange, electric stillness, as if the atmosphere itself is waiting for a signal to exhale. We spend so much of our lives tethered to the ground, measuring our existence by the weight…
Mumbai Slum Smile, by Ryszard Wierzbicki - Photojournalism, Portrait Photography, Award Winning Photography, Documentary Photography, Ryszard Wierzbicki

Mumbai Slum Smile by Ryszard Wierzbicki

Five years ago, together with my friend Tomek, I had a chance to be guided by local hooligans through Mumbai slums. The boys showed us a hidden side of this city. The lesson I took this day was that people are everywhere the same, only circumstances…
Empty, by Keith Goldstein - Street Photography, Photojournalism, Award Winning Photography, Keith Goldstein, Photography Awards

The Weight of Absence

We walk through cities built on noise, our eyes trained to skip over the gaps. We are taught that a space must be filled to have value. A cup must hold something. A hand must be busy. A person must be moving toward a destination to be seen…