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Results of 7th WSP 5 competition! |
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So many great photos were uploaded! Thank you all for joining this great competition, Congrats
to you all! Don't forget! All street competitions for the 5th World Street photography book, will end at the 31th of January 2018,
there won't be a super last call like we did the past years. For this year the photography
trinale is taking place in Hamburg, we want to have the book done at the trinale therefor we
need to be done earlier as in the past years. So if you want to join, do it as soon as possible.
Back to the competition, Michael Ernest Sweet curated this great competition and here are his restults!
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Michael Ernest Sweet: In this competition I found myself moving away from "traditional" contemporary street photography.
I've simply seen enough photos of women on cell phones, kids jumping in and out of water, people
obscured by afternoon shadows, and rainy umbrella scenes to last me a couple of lifetimes. I craved
something different and these photographers delivered. I tried to reward the brave, the
photographers who embrace visual "risk" and dared to make images that don't look like all the
others. Now, if only we could get more street photographs to go off script.
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Curators First ChoiceThe curators first choice is awarded to Elisa Distefano for the image 'Will the suffereing ever end?' |
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Michael Ernest Sweet: I have no idea what's going on in this photograph and that's why I love it. Mystery is great. I want to read a picture like a book and this one allows me to do just this. The composition is also nicely balanced - the eye is drawn around the image. This photograph makes me ask questions, simply makes me want to talk about it - what a feat in this day and age. I see (and judge) thousands and thousands of photos a year and for an image to make me go away and continue to talk is surely a winner every day of the week. Photographer, bring me more like this one! Fantastic job, you've got eyes! |
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Michael Ernest Sweet: This image reminds me of Michelle Groskopf's work and that's a compliment. There is also a little Martin Parr present - a good mix to be sure! I admire how the photographer was able to give us, almost, a picture of the man's face without showing us the man's face. Yes! Cut off heads my dear photographer - something I've perfected in my own work for many, many years. Give us the story without the eyes, for eyes tell us too much. |
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Special mentions |
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Big Brother is Watching You by Elsa Martins |
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Michael Ernest Sweet: The photographer titled this piece "Big Brother is Watching You". So it seems, yes. The photo does truly remind me of a sci-fi scene from Orwell's era. There is just enough blur, enough focus, enough white and black to make it all work. This was an image well seen and well captured. Be proud, photographer! |
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Zürich 113-23 by Thomas Salzmann |
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Michael Ernest Sweet: Many viewers will not like the fact that I have included this picture in my special mentions. What's so special about it they will say. Ah, but there is a lot that is special about this image. For those who don't know this is why your photographs have faded into nowhere. There are too many photographs of brightly colored walls with shadowy people lurking about (mostly products of skillful Photoshop manipulation), even greater in number are the images of umbrellas and people jumping puddles or playing with pigeons. This stuff is shit because it has nothing to say - the images are merely produced by people copying others - people making "Oprah Books". I'm not impressed. But this image! This image was well seen. The green door on the left balanced by the green bush on the right. Now, add a splash of color by way of a strange cord dangling into the scene. The cord brings mystery to the image. Why is it there? The unusual amount of "slack" in the cord suggests something sinister - something creepy. There is an odd mood that accompanies this picture and that is why I love it - for how it makes me feel nervous. |
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by Melvin Anore |
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Michael Ernest Sweet: Feet! What a great photograph. Well seen. And kudos to you for getting down on the ground. There is a timeless quality that oozes from this image. And why is that man in the front sporting such unusually elongated feet? Is it an aberration of his body or of the lens? Whatever the case it is this strange aberration that make the photograph. There are questions in this photograph. Why are they in line? Why no shoes? Good job photographer, bring me more like this one. |
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The strange window by JULIAN DEL NOGAL |
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Michael Ernest Sweet: Weird doll faces are always creepy, but this image brings that to a whole new level. Normally, I am not a fan of street photographs of truly static things. For example, I am tired of looking at street photographs of billboards and advertising (even if they are combined with some half-witted attempt to create irony). This capture, though, works for me as it draws me in. I want to examine all those tiny faces and read each one's emotions carefully. There is so much of the same here, in some way, and yet nothing is the same from one face to the next. This is an example of a street photographer going off script and doing it well. We need more of this. Less of people on cell phones, please, and more of these strange scenes of which our world is littered. Let us look at those for a while. |
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Cats by Nicoletta Guzzo |
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Michael Ernest Sweet: Cats! The great thing about this photograph, and the fact that it features cats, is that I know for certain, absolute certain, that it is a truly candid image. I mean, who can choreograph cats? No one, that's who. This image also makes me instantly think of street photography's golden age. The image could be a Henri Cartier-Bresson of a Martine Franck (those two were married you know!). I love the symmetry in the photo, the balance, the classical atmosphere. Normally I am the last one to select this kind of photo in a contest. I prefer to award the photographer who is edgy, anxious, and who takes risks. That said, I just kept coming back to this image as it really presents a feeling that I thought was long lost in contemporary photography. It's hard to make a good "classic" image these days. Everything you attempt to photograph has been done before and likely better. Is this the best cat street photo ever made? No, but it's not too damn bad either. I like it. Good job, photographer. Well seen! |
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Another excellent World Street Photography competition, well done to everyone that entered. Click here and join the new 'Street photography competition' Live competitions ........ Click the links below and join one of our latest competitions. Street Photography (2017/ 2018) - 9 final! Alex Coghe's street photography competition: Documentary Series competition Chris Suspect's street photography competition: Festivals, Concerts, Parties (2017/2018) Enamul Kabir's street competition: Coexistence (2017/2018) Fadi BouKaram's street competition Protests Jonathan Higbee's street photography competition: Juxtaposition (2017/2018) 2 Jonathan Higbee's street photography competition: Queer Life Lauren Welles' street photography competition: Emotions (2017/2018) Portrait Photography -41- (no street!) Siegfried Hansen's street photography competition: Urban Geometry (2017/2018) Vinod Babu's street photography competition: Workers |
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Peace!Michael Ernest Sweet & Gido Carper
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