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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Portfoliobox

Gold

The sight of children engaged in unsupervised play, left to their own devices in the streets, has become increasingly rare.

Set in outback Australia, the scenes weave together the past and present, symbolising the relationship between the landscape and the timeless essence of childhood.

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Unsupervised

Alexandrena Parker

Australia

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M brings together three series that explore from the Mediterranean basin to Trump's America, and France, contemporary masculinities and the determination to express who one really is. The challenge is of introducing into the collective imagination these singular yet shared experiences.

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"M" (2012/2023)

Scarlett Coten

France

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Silver

Three girls dressed in traditional Oaxacan dress in Teotitlán del Valle.

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Bows and Ruffles

IRENE BAQUE DE PUIG

Spain

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Bronze

Ohio-raised, New York-based photographer Susan Copich has since 2010 been making highly staged and carefully crafted self-portraits that reflect on the dark sides of contemporary American femininity and the artist’s inner psychological dramas in ways that that are both alarming and relatable.

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then he forgot my name

Susan Copich

United States of America

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The series ‘A Black Life Matters’ are a group of self portraits made in response to the death of George Floyd and the racial tensions experienced by the black community in the summer of 2020.

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A black life matters

Ade Okelarin

People’s Vote Award

Domestic Witch (self-portrait) from the series: Domestic Goddess

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Domestic Witch (self-portrait)

Henriette Van Gasteren

Netherlands

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