Discovering global streets through visual stories

Mounted was a part of Uni devising opportunities for Photographers to reflect their ideas, thoughts, and interpretations of capturing the real world through digital lenses. The forum allowed enthusiasts and professionals from the world over to share their outstanding bodies of work. 

Picturing Awards - aimed to promote photography and photographers. Our idea was to create new opportunities to present valuable work to audiences all over the world. We aimed to build a place where photographers can show different points of view and thrive through online exchanges. 

The winners of the Professional and Student categories received rewards and cash prizes. 

Etymologically, A street is a public thoroughfare in a built environment. It is a public parcel of land adjoining buildings in an urban context, on which people may freely assemble, interact, and move about. A street can be as simple as a level patch of dirt but is more often paved with a hard, durable surface such as tarmac, concrete, cobblestone, or brick.

Originally, the word street simply meant a paved road (Latin: via strata). But it is where the major part of urban life happens and humans connect. A street is a place for stories and exchanges. It is where time changes its form. It is the public realm in a city full of private residences.

Streets contribute formally and informally a lot to how a city functions. The brief/theme of the challenge was to make a picture story of the streets using not more than 8 images – along with a concept note.

This concept note could be added in the journal section that covered a small description of your picture story. 

The jury for the competition consisted of esteemed designers, professionals, and academicians from around the world. The Lead Jurors for the competitions were as follows:  

Rui Palha, Administrator, Rui Palha Photography, Portugal

Siegfried Hansen, Photographer, Siegfried Hansen, Germany

Guillaume Gaudet, Owner / Photographer, Guillaume Gaudet Photography, USA

Some of the Best of competition projects are:

Winning Project: LIFE

By: Dhruv Bhatia

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Description: 'Surviving The Pandemic'

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Editor’s Choice: A STREET OUT OF CONTEXT

By: Haoyu Wang

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Description: Sensing Street on the Longfellow Bridge

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Editor’s Choice: STREETS OF ODDNESS

By: Haoyu Wang

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Description: Accustomed odd on vernacular street lives

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Editor’s Choice: A city at eye level

By: Clara de Souza Gomes & Kevyn Igor Lopes Bortolotti

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Description: A street is a shelter and a place for sensory perceptions that can create better communities.

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