We've been deep in our Poland photography lately and we're going to need a minute because the nature work on this platform is absolutely doing us in 🥹
Misty mornings over still water, golden light cutting through birch canopy, frozen lakeshores that make you forget you're looking at a phone screen. Pexels creators have been capturing Poland's landscapes like it's personal, and we're here for every single frame.
Speaking of Poland, our Passport to Poland challenge is live right now with $1,500 in prizes across five categories. If you've got photos and videos of Poland, we want to see them. Comment POLAND and we'll DM you the link, or go to the link in bio 🇵🇱
Featured photographers:
@_spokuj_@julystarphoto@vlad.ph@waldi_rawa@mohammed_ajwad@mycasualshots
Mirek Kielar
Michał Robak
@pauline.arms@marekpiwnicki@kasia_palitava
Dawid Zawiła
@zabzabzabinsky@mrdbstig@Eugene.captures@mytravelarchive@grtfldays
palchuk_art
OUR DAILY LIFE VIDEO CHALLENGE JUST DROPPED WITH $1000 UP FOR GRABS 🔥
You've got videos on your phone of you and others just living. Making a coffee. Walking to the train. Doing Saturday errands. We made a challenge for those because that's exactly the stuff people search for on Pexels constantly.
Upload your videos to our challenge until May 31st and you'll have a shot at winning big. First place takes home $500, two runners-up get $250 each. Your work could reach millions of monthly visitors and make so much impact 🌍
Comment DAILY and we'll DM you the link or go to the link in bio!
POLAND we are coming for you 🇵🇱
The Passport to Poland photo and video challenge is officially OPEN and we are SO ready to see your country through your eyes!
We are looking for the real Poland — the everyday moments, the streets you walk every morning, the food on your table on a Tuesday, the people who make your corner of the country what it is.
Fifteen winners across five categories will share a $1,500 prize pool. Your work could end up in front of millions of people around the world.
You have until May 31 to upload as many photos and videos as you want. Comment "Poland" and we will DM you the link, or tap the link in our bio 🔗
Featured contributors:
Dawid Zawiła
@ch_jawad779@dangelovideo@karography@jakubzerdzicki.eth@the_motanka@mierzejewski_mateusz@zvolskiy@tastyineesti@yuraforrat
Dorota Pankonin
Rafał Nawrocki
@szafranphoto
POLAND we are coming for you this May and we have brought THREE meetups with us 🫶🏻🇵🇱
Each meetup is hosted by a brilliant local photographer who knows their city better than any tourist map ever could. @bydaveight + @xadamowicz are taking Wrocław, @lekko_ponand is hosting Warszawa, and @nataliapawlucka is leading the way through Katowice. Give them all a follow before you show up — they are seriously good and your feed deserves them.
You bring a camera and your favourite people. We will bring the energy.
Comment your area and we will DM you the link to RSVP, or tap the meetup link in our bio for all three.
The moment you’ve all been waiting for is here and we could not be more thrilled to crown this round’s Lens Excellence winners 👏
Take a bow @esraburcun , @mybirdsofbelarus and @gross.oskar , because what you three pulled off this round is the kind of work that makes the whole Pexels community better just by existing. Swipe to soak it all in 💖
🚨 THERE'S ONE WEEK left on our Home Cooking challenge, which means you don't have long to cook something, photograph it, and potentially walk off with a share of $1,000 plus have your work seen on a platform that is visited by 1M+ people a day.
Okay, that's the urgent bit out of the way. The less urgent bit is that your roast chicken probably looks incredible in person and then inexplicably sad on camera, and nine times out of ten it's not the chicken's fault — it's the ceiling light doing what ceiling lights do to anything edible.
Move the plate near a window, turn the overhead light off, and you've already done more for your dinner than most recipe sites ever will.
Now sit through these tips, get inspired and join the challenge 🧑🍳
April 30 is the deadline. Photos and videos are both welcome!
Comment HOME for the link or go to our link in bio.
I’M OKAY I’M OKAY I’M OKAY 🇮🇹
The Destination Italy winners are in and I cannot be trusted to talk about them calmly. One of these submissions made me open a new tab to look at flights to Sicily. Another one made me text my mum. A THIRD one I’ve set as my laptop background.
Swipe through, then head to the comments and make these creators’ whole week. Tell them what you love, tell me your favourite thing about Italy, tell us all the most niche Italy fact you know. I’ll start: pesto was invented in Genoa and arguing about the correct ingredients is a regional sport.
Cheers to all our winners 🏆
@in_rey_mind@shotbytwentyseven@momentifolografici_@supersixtyeight@guksergey@lemonywanderer@_sergia@daniele_sgura@baronxc
Breathing room is a flex, and our contributors are showing off.
This month's The Edit is all about negative space — the art of leaving most of the frame alone and trusting that one thing in the corner to carry the whole photo. Sounds simple. Somehow nobody does it.
The reason it works is genuinely a bit weird: your brain reads empty space as tension, so the moment a subject breaks it, your eye locks on and refuses to let go. Less competition in the frame means more power to the thing that's actually there.
The photographers in this edit understood that removing things is a compositional choice, and made it deliberately. Go on, swipe — we dare you to look away. 🖤
@connorscottmcmanus
Fillipe Gomes
Ninoslav Zivkovic
@alancabello_@vox.athena@imandrewnawab
光旭 杨
@lucasnegredo.ph@oranduu@apasaric@Nanfujii
Jude Mitchell-Hedges
Jan van der Wolf
Waldemar Nowak
@orlovamaria
