The Color Photo Contest by 1839 Awards honors those who use color photography as their medium of expression

Color Photography Contest

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Pixieset

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Blazing Editions

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Bumblejax

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Think Tank

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Silvershotz

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Bay Photo

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Gold

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Robyn Finlayson

Australia

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Silver

Dreaming of conservation being as simple as placing a protective glass sphere around what we want to save.

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Spheres of Nature

Bronze

The ongoing series Colour Correspondence approaches colour in photography from a synthetic point of view. It combines creating colour photograms in the darkroom, using a custom machine-learning model that generates colour in the tension between chance and control.

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Colour Correspondence

David Pereira

People’s Vote Award

My second attempt at editing my face into an AI generated image. I used Midjourney to describe a photograph I had taken, and then imagine all four of the descriptions, resulting in 16 unique images. I chose this one, photographed myself in the light of the image, and composited myself in.

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Josh New

United States of America

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