A Stranger Reacting to your Photograph
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A Stranger Reacting to your Photograph

July 2023

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This photograph captures 4 reactions and 1000 emotions in the gazes of this family, which has been so tested by life. You need to be a little bit of luck to take such an authentic portrait like this, anyways you also have to be brave, vulnerable and human to make others feel confortable enough to show such honest feelings. Congratulations.

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This reaction and the whole scene has taken me to a West Anderson Movie. Love it.

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Colors and composition are a wonderful piece of art in this photograph. Congrats.

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Oh my God! The Eye! That wide open eye give this picture motion, vitality, a sense of speed that impregnates all scene... that it's hard for me to explain... this is a wonderful street photograph!

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The forcefulness of this person's reaction makes us want to understand the story behind this photograph and why their anger has led them to break all the protocols of good manners that the formality of their attire makes us believe are inherent to them. All these contradictions have led me to consider this photograph as the best in the series.

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1,000 Images entered

412 Photographers

31,370 Ratings

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Yes, the joy of the children is wonderful in this photo. But the contrast of this joy placed so close to the gloomy presence of the woman wearing the burka makes the emotions surface in the person contemplating this photograph. Magnificent experience.

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Show me your best photographs of a person you do not know reacting to being photographed. In street photography, we often photograph strangers, so please do not enter photos of family members, friends, or anyone else known to you. I look forward to seeing all your photos.

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really like it, but it needs a little more context.

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