TOP 10 images tasks of 2025

LOOKING BACK AT THE TOP 10 images tales OF THE YEAR

 

Moments from 2025 had been captured via the lenses of photographers throughout the globe, showcasing a various vary of tasks that caught our eye right here at designboom. Spanning expansive volumes and standalone sequence, artists provided compelling glimpses of the world, from Christopher Herwig’s vibrant documentation of South Asia’s vehicles and tuk-tuks to Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze’s daring portraits of bamboo scaffolding employees navigating the heights of Hong Kong. The 12 months additionally introduced haunting aerial compositions by Reuben Wu, who mixed drones, lasers, and lengthy exposures to mesmerizing impact, alongside a set of surprising homes world wide, documented in a ebook printed by Hoxton Mini Press.

 

After revisiting the putting images tasks we coated over the previous 12 months, we’ve curated a collection of the highest 10 that proceed to encourage us. Read on to discover the complete listing.

 

 

picture by Reuben Wu

 

In his sequence Thin Places, multidisciplinary visible artist, photographer, and director Reuben Wu inscribes mild onto distant pure environments via experimental photographic interventions. Known for his haunting aerial compositions utilizing drones, lasers, and lengthy exposures, the artist has developed a novel visible language that brings images, design, and speculative expertise collectively. In Thin Places, Wu frames landscapes the place synthetic mild and pure terrain appear to satisfy midway. The photos are captured solely on-site, in single exposures, utilizing drones and lasers to hint fleeting geometries into the setting.

 

One standout work from the sequence, Surface Tension, was photographed at a distant salt lake below a moonless sky. Using a customized aerial laser swept simply above the water’s floor, Wu renders a floating curtain of sunshine, revealing crystalline salt buildings caught between the celebs above and their reflections beneath. 

 

 

 

 

picture by Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze

 

While Reuben Wu illuminates distant landscapes with ethereal mild, Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze turns his gaze to human ability and labor inside Hong Kong’s dense city material. In Echoing Above, he paperwork the extraordinary follow of bamboo scaffolding, specializing in its structural and spatial nuances and the precision required to navigate it safely. Bamboo scaffolding, significantly the Fei Paang (飛棚, or ‘flying shed’) sort, stays a defining characteristic of renovation work in compact residential areas. Assembled straight onto constructing exteriors with minimal anchoring, it permits employees to carry out focused upkeep duties, from air-con repairs to facade cleansing. Suspended at dizzying heights, they transfer alongside slender ledges and helps, usually holding lengthy bamboo poles in a single hand, showcasing outstanding agility and dexterity. 

 

 

 

 

picture © Franck Bohbot

 

From Hong Kong’s hovering scaffolds, the main target shifts to the hushed interiors of one in all Europe’s most iconic cultural landmarks. Franck Bohbot turns to Paris’s Musée du Louvre, capturing a aspect of the establishment not often seen by its tens of millions of annual guests. In his sequence, Bohbot presents an unusually tranquil, architecturally attentive portrait of the museum. Granted uncommon carte-blanche entry, the French-born, New York–based mostly photographer explores the Louvre’s interiors with a quiet precision, revealing its structural rhythm and enduring materials presence. Part of his broader Parisian Interiors challenge, the work reframes the Louvre not as a world vacation spot however as what Bohbot calls ‘a living architectural organism.’ His photos distill the museum right into a sequence of calm spatial encounters, captured solely in pure or obtainable mild. Daylight subtly gradients throughout galleries, vanishing strains draw the attention via layered histories, and the textures of stone, wooden, and marble anchor every composition in a way of stillness and permanence. 

 

 

 

 

picture © Gauri Gill | courtesy of the artist and Vadehra Art Gallery

 

From the stillness of the Louvre’s monumental interiors, the listing shifts to a panorama formed by collective motion and improvisation. In The Village on the Highway, Gauri Gill paperwork the improvised shelters constructed by India’s protesting farmers, revealing a terrain outlined by resilience and resourcefulness. Exhibited at Vadehra Art Gallery in New Delhi, the sequence includes 90 large-format analog images tracing how roadside encampments developed into self-sustaining settlements. Farming automobiles grew to become shelters, tarpaulin and bamboo fashioned partitions and partitions, and material enclosures had been reduce to create makeshift doorways, creating areas tailored for relaxation, cooking, bathing, and gathering.

 

Even the street grew to become a website of cultivation, with small vegetable plots offering sustenance. Everyday objects equivalent to pots, coolers, and mosquito nets tackle sculptural presence in Gill’s photos, underscoring the ingenuity of those lived environments and the realities going through India’s marginalized farmers.