This year’s Drone Photo Awards highlighted extraordinary beauty in ordinary scenes across the globe, resulting from nearly 14,000 submissions from 104 countries.
Event overview: The annual competition now in its sixth year celebrates images taken with drones, with submissions ranging from landscapes to scenes of everyday life.
* Emanuela Ascoli, head of photography for National Geographic-France and one of this year’s judges, emphasized the unique perspectives that drone photography offers.
* Photographers from countries including Bangladesh, Syria, and the Dominican Republic were among the winners and recipients of honorable mentions.
* The photos were evaluated not only for their aesthetic qualities, but also for their ability to evoke emotion and impart knowledge to the viewer.
Spotlight on winners: Winning entries captured various human and natural subjects.
* Md Tanveer Hassan Rohan’s photo “Rice Processing” highlighted the artistic patterns created by field workers in a rice field in Bangladesh.
* Mouneb Taim’s piece “Ramadan meals among the ruins in Idlib, Syria” depicted a group maintaining traditions amid a war-ravaged city.
* Matias Delacroix’s photograph “Dominican Republic Haiti Daily Life” illustrated the crowded northern border between the two countries.
* Raj Mohan’s “Boon to Bane! – the 300 acres of dumpyard” focused on the degradation of Pallikaranai wetlands in Chennai, India due to pollution.
Key quotes: Ascoli emphasized that to win an award, photos must “transmit some emotion,” and “teach you something that you might not have known before.”
* Ascoli also stressed that this communication should be “done in a beautiful, elegant way.”
* Mouneb Taim, a freelance photographer based in Turkey, explained that his photo of people in Syria holding a collective iftar, was a “mixture of hope, pain and determination.”
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