16 attractive photos from the 1839 Awards’ Color Photography Contest

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The 1839 Awards are named in honor of the yr that the images was first made broadly accessible to the general public. Each yr, the competitors celebrates photographers via totally different contests, together with in colour images.

“These images are windows into faraway places, challenges to what the photographic image can be, and invitations to encounter the world from new, unexpected points of view,” 1839 explains. “They give us the all- too-rare opportunity to pause, to look more slowly, and to feel the world more deeply than we did before.”

a herd of water buffalo splash through water
“Chaos!!”
Wildebeests frantically scramble to cross the Mara River in the course of the Great Migration.
Credit: Jeff Beatty / 1839 Awards, 2026 Color Photography Contest

Amateur {and professional} photographers can enter 1839’s Photographer of the Year contest via September 15.

three children outside a building. the shadow of a cross on the wall
“God is Watching”
The boys play ball in entrance of the home that’s an Afro-Brazilian place of worship.
Credit: Cesare Simioni / 1839 Awards, 2026 Color Photography Contest
a native american in face makeup and traditional garb
“Capturing Great Plains Imagery 1987-2009”
Credit: Andrew Hogarth / 1839 Awards, 2026 Color Photography Contest
a fire fighter under flames
“Fire Festival”
This picture was taken at a conventional fireplace pageant in Japan. With a historical past of 800 years, the pageant is held each winter to wish for good well being and prosperity. Throughout the evening, 6-meter-long torches burn repeatedly, filling the air with smoke and flame to maintain the festive spirit
Credit: Emiko Monobe / 1839 Awards, 2026 Color Photography Contest
a red sun above a smoke-covered forest
“As the Sun Emerged from the Wyoming Wildfires”
Wildfire smoke serves a objective in nature however not typically for images. In some circumstances it might probably impart and temper, colour, and impact on a panorama that may’t be replicated. Here, an virtually otherworldly solar accents the layered topography and the nonetheless silence of the Wyoming wilderness.
Credit: Michael Mihaljevich / 1839 Awards, 2026 Color Photography Contest
whales in the water
“Heading North”
Heading to northern feeding grounds from calving bays in Baja California, grey whale mothers and their younger calves hug the shoreline. Sticking near shore within the kelp forest is a sound technique to keep away from patrolling killer whales who want deep water to efficiently take down a grey whale calf.
Credit: Jodi Frediani / 1839 Awards, 2026 Color Photography Contest
three men walking in front of large tubes
“Les Triplets de Pompidou”
Centre Pompidou Paris, 2025 Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers’ putting “inside-out” structure of the Centre Pompidou juxtaposed with three gents passers-by creates a compelling visible narrative. Harmony, scale and stability is achieved via sturdy
daylight, casting blue shadows throughout the three curved chimneys whereas throwing the human component into silhouette leading to a clear, trendy aesthetic.
Credit: Jeremy C Glover / 1839 Awards, 2026 Color Photography Contest
people sitting at tables on grass
“Untitled”
Credit: Williams Vaughan / 1839 Awards, 2026 Color Photography Contest
a sculpture outside a petrified wood store
“Nature Study”
Nature Study examines a constructed panorama and illustration of the pure world, the place structure, commerce, and place converge in an surprising manner. Photographed in medium format with a Rolleiflex 2.8F on Kodak Portra 400.
Credit: L. Chaussee / 1839 Awards, 2026 Color Photography Contest
surfer in front of massive wave
“Half Second Before”
Big waves browsing. Winter session. Half second earlier than incident.
Credit: Natalya Pyrogova / 1839 Awards, 2026 Color Photography Contest
a bird in snowy, mountainous region
“Little Bird”
A solitary chook stands in opposition to melting ice, positioned as witness inside a altering world. The picture contemplates isolation, survival and the accelerating fragility of frozen landscapes.
Credit: Anne Neiwand / 1839 Awards, 2026 Color Photography Contest
reflection of modern people on old painting
“A look through the centuries”
Credit: Aleksandr Artemev / 1839 Awards, 2026 Color Photography Contest
cement stairs on brick wall
“A Line Decides”
A diagonal interrupts stillness. Architecture pauses, then chooses path.
Credit: Julia Kantor / 1839 Awards, 2026 Color Photography Contest
some kind of stick on blue
“6:57”
Time is the one certainty inside ambiguity.
Credit: Leebaeck Choi / 1839 Awards, 2026 Color Photography Contest
a fisherman holds up a net
“The Morning Catch”
In Quang Nam province in central Vietnam you may nonetheless discover many individuals practising what is called ru fishing. I needed to seize one thing that little bit totally different to different photographers so requested for permission to enter his boat while he was inspectig his catch.
Credit: Julian Elliott / 1839 Awards, 2026 Color Photography Contest

 

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