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The 2025 Shoot The Frame Annual Awards results are in. Congratulations to @hannawolfphoto - A finalist of the One Frame category! Title: Weaning Elowen Description: In my final days of breastfeeding, I photographed myself with my daughter. Abandoning self-led weaning was one of the hardest choices I’ve made as a mother. The anecdotal advice was endless: “Don’t offer, don’t refuse. Try garlic or vinegar on your nipples. Leave home until she forgets.” In the end, it was the bandages on my chest that worked, because she understood the word broken. In that moment, the familiar quietly shifted toward something new and unknown. As my deepest attachment met my desire for release, I turned the camera on myself to acknowledge the vulnerability of being caught between holding on and letting go.

The 2025 @shoottheframe Annual Awards results are in. Congratulations to @trevcole - A finalist of the Photo Essay category! The remaining images from this photo essay are on our website. Essay Title: Pastoral Peoples and Practices Description: People are inextricably connected to their livestock and beasts of burden. The peoples of the Ilemi triangle (the Omo valley of Ethiopia, Central and Eastern Equatoria and Northern Kenya) are all pastoralists. Their bond with their livestock is inextricably connected to their environment and their subsistence farming systems have a small ecological footprint. This area is very vulnerable to climate change and the impacts of drought have desiccated their environments. Cattle, sheep and goats are their livelihoods and all their wealth is dependent upon them. The animals are used in barter for guns, dowry’s for wives, blood for nutrition, milk as part of their daily diet and occasionally they slaughter cattle for meat. The Mundari of Central Equatoria and the Kara of the Omo have many traits and traditions in common. They often practice transhumance, moving their herds in response to rains and fresh grazing.

The 2025 @shoottheframe Annual Awards results are in. Congratulations to @tobybinderphotography - A finalist of the Photo Essay category! The remaining images from this photo essay are on our website. Essay Title: Divided Youth Description: There is hardly any other country in Europe where a past conflict is still as present in daily life as Northern Ireland. Not only by physical barriers as walls and fences but also through a psychologically divided society. I have been documenting what it means for young people, all of whom were born after the peace agreement was signed, to grow up under this inter-generational tension – in both, Protestant and Catholic neighbourhoods. If I had been born at the top of my street, behind the corrugated-iron border, I would have been British. Incredible to think. My whole idea of myself, the attachments made to a culture, heritage, religion, nationalism and politics are all an accident of birth. I was one street away from being born my ‘enemy’«. Paul McVeigh, Belfast-born novelist. I have been documenting the daily life of teenagers in British working-class communities for two decades. After the Brexit referendum I focused this work on Belfast where Protestant Unionists and Catholic Nationalists who live in homogeneous neighborhoods that are divided by walls till today. These two communities in Belfast who seem to have irreconcilable differences, are more similar than they’d both like to admit. While they still stick to their own symbols of their identity and tradition, they wear the same clothes, have the same haircuts, listen to the same music, drink the same beer, take the same drugs and often the same worries such as violence, unemployment, social discrimination and therefore, lack of prospects. Old hardliners with links to the paramilitary groups tried to maintain their idea of culture and tradition by putting pressure on the communities. Enemy stereotypes were cultivated instead of being dismantled, ideas of how one should be were given to the children. Especially for teenagers in search of identity, this exerts a lot of pressure.

The 2025 @shoottheframe Annual Awards results are in. Congratulations to @maciekjasik - The winner of the Photo Essay category! The remaining images from this photo essay are on our website, uncensored. Link in bio. Essay Title: Bypassing The Rational Description: Photography has flooded our world with images of ourselves. We are accustomed to seeing and assessing images of people constantly, most of whom are celebrities or strangers we will never meet or know. We instantly affix attributes, often based just on the attractiveness of the other gender. In the 19th century, photography allowed painting to pull away from detail to focus on an emotional response to reality. With ‘Bypassing the Rational,’ I am knowingly retreating from the details which draw and entice us, and which allow us to judge. Seeing every pore, every scar and sag is not a route to intimacy; it is a pretense. Instead, the focus only reaches part of the figure. The rest is a blur in a vibrant, limitless sea of color, a confluence of emotions and feelings; this evokes the traces of memory we have for each other. The limited focus demonstrates our inability to ever fully understand each other. This action becomes so pronounced, genders can be difficult to discern; even the basics can’t be taken for granted.

The 2025 @shoottheframe Annual Awards results are in. Congratulations to @javierarcenillas - The winner of the One Frame category! Photo Title: Citizens of despair Description: More than years after their expulsion from Myanmar, thousands of unregistered Rohingya refugees living in the Kutupalong makeshift camp, Bangladesh, have been forcibly displaced from their homes, in an act of intimidation and abuse by the local authorities. Some international organisations have been treating numerous people for injuries where the majority were women and children victims of rejection, and the situation doesn’t seem to be advancing but towards the ultimate despair of these new asian parias.

The 2025 @shoottheframe Annual Awards results are in. Congratulations to @ahmed.hanjoul.photography - A finalist of the One Frame category! Title: This is my eye Description: A village woman from Lebanon, her face is full of wrinkles. Her hands are clearly tired. She holds her chicken as if it were a piece of her.

Last Day to see the exhibitions at the 11th edition of the Indian Photo Festival Currently on view at the #indianphotofest2025 - Shoot The Frame // VARIOUS Venue - State Art Gallery, Hyderabad Date - on view till 04 Jan 2026 /  11 AM - 6 PM Shoot The Frame is a global suite of photography contests celebrating exceptional portrait, landscape and wildlife photography. Check the link in the bio or visit /exhibitions to know more about this exhibition. Image Credit - ChanOnn Fong #ipf2025 #photofestival #photoexhibition [contemporaryphotography conceptualart visualstorytelling artofvisuals instafocus visualsoflife PhotoOfTheDay PicOfTheDay incredibleindia everydayeverywhere events happeninghyderabad india_lens indiapicture indianvisuals indiashutterbugs indianphotographyclub indianphotographyhub shutterbugsindia shutterhubindia indiafeature modernidentity]

12 HOURS LEFT. Single portraits and photo essays. Great prizes including $4,000 cash and exhibitions at photo festivals. The countdown timer is on the website: shoottheframe.com Photo credit: Wes Bruer #shoottheframe #portraitawards #photoawards

The @shoottheframe DEADLINE IS EXTENDED UNTIL MIDNIGHT ON JAN 2. The countdown timer is on the website. $4,000 cash, gear from @fujifilmx_au & @colorpro - exhibitions from @indianphotofest - & @rotterdamphoto - lifetime websites from @useformat - credits from @moo Upload your best portraits and photo essays. Photo credit: Hugo Hentoff #shoottheframe #photoawards #photoessay

The @shoottheframe DEADLINE IS EXTENDED UNTIL MIDNIGHT ON JAN 2. The countdown timer is on the website. $4,000 cash, gear from @fujifilmx_au & @colorpro - exhibitions from @indianphotofest & @rotterdamphoto - lifetime websites from @useformat - credits from @moo Upload your best portraits and photo essays. Photo credit: Annika Haas #shoottheframe #photoawards #photoessay

DEADLINE EXTENDED FOR 2 DAYS. Turns out NYE is a tricky deadline or many, so the final call for the @shoottheframe annual awards has been extended to midnight midnight on Jan 2. The countdown timer is on the website. $4,000 cash, gear from @fujifilmx_au & @colorpro - exhibitions from @indianphotofest & @rotterdamphoto - lifetime websites from @useformat - credits from @moo Upload your best portraits and photo essays. Photo credit: Javier Arcenillas #shoottheframe #photoawards #photoessay

Last chance! Hours left. The @shoottheframe annual awards deadline is Dec 31. Submit your best portraits and photo essays. $4,000 cash and other incredible prizes. Portrait by @ziesook . 2022 STF finalist. #shoottheframe #portrait #photoawards