Hevsel Gardens in Diyarbakir, by Mehmet Masum - Photojournalism, Landscape Photography, Documentary Photography, Mehmet Masum, Light & Composition

The Weight of Ancient Soil

I once sat with an old farmer in a village near the Tigris, watching him turn the earth with a rusted spade. He didn't speak much, but he pointed to the dark, rich soil and told me that the ground remembers everything. He said that empires…
Sliding Girls, by Ryszard Wierzbicki - Photojournalism, Photography Awards, Travel Photography, Children Photography, Ryszard Wierzbicki

The Architecture of Play

Public space is rarely neutral. When we design environments for children, we are essentially mapping out the boundaries of their future citizenship. We decide where they are permitted to run, where they must sit still, and which structures…