Golden Shot Photography Awards
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This story captures daily life within Tepito, Mexico City, documenting gang (Sureños 13) and cartel culture through immersive photography. Focusing on survival, loyalty, and resilience rather than violence, it humanizes residents, revealing their rituals, faith, and community amidst danger. From street corners to personal spaces, the series portrays the complex social fabric, offering insight into […]
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New work from my on-going Zuiderzee series. The Zuiderzee Series explores silence, light, and horizon as timeless elements of the Dutch landscape. Shot along the former Zuiderzee, the work reduces land, water, and sky to their most essential relationships, creating images that function as a visual pause.
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Arriving back to the USA from Mexico, we were directed “down the line” to customs. I liked the colors, the line of sight down the hall — especially with the white light leading the way, and of course, my wife.
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The series focuses on historical windows captured in a very famous tourist site – the 120-year-old Concubine Lane – in my country, Malaysia. The concept of cracked, burnt windows conveys the idea that traditional values of famous places are wearing off, and it is saddening to see their history being gradually forgotten as modernization happens. […]
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A young mother and her child cross a street in the favela neighborhood of Bairro de Boa Esperança, in Sal Rei, on the island of Boa Vista.According to the United Nations Sustainable Development Group (UNSDG), 24% of the world’s urban population lives in slums, favelas, or shantytowns. Bairro de Boa Esperança, is one of these […]
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A meditation on the fragile dance between opposites—life and death, creation and erasure. Within this tension, the essence of being unfolds. Light and shadow trace the pulse of existence: one cannot exist without the other. Figures emerge and dissolve, forms waver between presence and absence, revealing quiet conflicts where survival meets loss. The series lingers […]
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A Ticuna man stands on the side of a 500 years old Ceiba tree in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest. The tree has a water lines that marks where the water level reaches during the rainy season that goes from April to May. This photograph was taken in May 2024 and by that time, the level […]
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This series documents fishermen working in the wetlands of northern Colombia. In the shallow waters of the ciénaga, small wooden boats move slowly across an open landscape where the horizon between water and sky often disappears. The photographs observe daily fishing practices and the relationship between local communities and this fragile wetland ecosystem, where livelihoods […]
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Photos I have taken of Frank Gehrey’s masterpieces of architecture, Bilbao & the LA Disney Hall, that I have enhanced and painted with photoshop & my colorful imagination. This had led me into a series of museum architecture such as IMPei’s Paris Pyramid.
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This black and white fine art photograph features a lagoon inhabited by a group of flamingos. The scene is shrouded in fog, creating a soft and muted ambiance. The flamingos, with their long legs and necks, stand quietly in the water, adding a sense of calm to the composition. The monochromatic tones capture the details […]