Street Photography 1st place winner

Melancholy hovers over this series.
The people remain unrecognisable and are therefore replaceable. Perhaps their mood is completely different in real life, but in the photos something melancholy emanates from them, small symbols such as a lowered head or loneliness.
For me, the focus of this series was to tear the situation and individual images completely out of their context and to give the viewer something thoughtful to take away with them.

There is an unmistakable aesthetic in the visual language of Nina Papiorek. Her photographs transport us into a world between fine art street and urban landscape photography.
With a focus on architecture, graphic elements and line work, Nina’s images convey the impression of loneliness and being lost in the urban environment. A minimalist approach runs through all of her work like a common thread, which is underlined by the fact that she uses black and white without exception.
Nina is an internationally award-winning photographer whose work has been featured in a large number of photography magazines worldwide. She has contributed to several book projects and is the author of online photography courses.
Besides Nina is editor of „Soul of Street“, the German magazine for street photography.