A Photo Series by South African Photographer Gideon Mendel exploring the impact of climate change on populations around the world. A project that began in 2007 with flood disasters in Britain and India, has since expanded to catastrophic rains in Haiti, Pakistan, Nigeria, Brazil - all pictured here.
The poses are meant to be conventional - while the environment is anything but. The faces tell the story.
French photographer Juliette Pavy is the overall winner of the annual Sony World Photography Awards for her documentary project about the sterilization of women in Greenland, and will receive a cash prize of $25,000. Here's more from CNN about her project, which was entered into the documentary category. You can also learn more about some of the winners of other categories, including Liam Man, a landscape photographer from the U.K., who took the otherworldly "Moonrise Sprites over Storr," and Valery Poshtarov of Bulgaria, who won the portraiture category for his series “Father and Son.”
People often seem distant when they sit there with their phones, disconnected, maybe even ignorant.
What we usually don't see is what they are looking at. It's easy to forget that who seems to be under the spell of their glowing screen is sometimes just connecting to someone else, sending a short wish, showing someone they care - maybe even to make sure that they have their peace of mind to be fully there for us after they put it down.
(The man in this picture is an old Taiwanese gentleman who now works as a driver and guide to show visitors the beauty of the island. In the moment I took the picture, he texted his wife that he'll be home soon - before sharing more stories from his life with us. Only few edits, the backlight of the car, the cigarette and the phone did enough of their magic.)
This photo was taken by my lovely wife. The next photo from the same session has been published here: https://pixelfed.social/i/web/post/610509435470497665 and was captured using the old camera you see in the picture.
I really enjoy taking photos with this camera because you can only take 12 shots, and you look through the viewfinder downwards, not forwards.