Honorable Mention in the category « Abstract Vision »

"Street Melancholy" is a black-and-white collection of street portraits that highlights fleeting emotions. In today's fast-paced world dominated by social media, genuine human interactions are often overlooked. As a street photographer, I aim to capture these unnoticed emotions, focusing particularly on melancholy. My technique involves motion blur to create unstaged atmospheric portraits, which I call "Urban Ghosts". „Street Melancholy“ is my way to render emotions of our fellows visible once more, even they are transient. But it's crucial to understand melancholy as a synonym for all transient unnoticed emotions.

„…because the moment that brings you sadness may be fleeting, and in the very next moment you may be laughing again. Regrettably, both these moments today often go unnoticed by others“