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.”

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

 

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