“Visions”
(street and non-street)
Singles winners
Winner – Eléonore Botton
Eléonore Botton
Luca Regoli
Chris Yan
Joy Saha
Ludovic Viévard
Winner – Eléonore Botton
Eléonore Botton is a French photographer who transitioned from a 20-year career as a pharmacist and clinical biologist to pursue her passion for photography after moving to Singapore in 2022. Her work focuses on documentary and street photography, highlighting everyday life and quiet interactions in public spaces. Through her thoughtful compositions and use of light and colour, she aims to evoke emotion and encourage reflection on daily life. Though early in her photographic journey, Eléonore is driven by curiosity and a sense of wonder.
Second Place - Luca Regoli
Luca Regoli born in 1972 and living in Mordano near Imola, Italy, started photography six years ago after quitting smoking. He saw photography as a substitute for smoking and self-taught himself with a DSLR, focusing on composition over technical perfection and spending little time on post-processing. He prefers shooting with a fixed 35mm or 50mm lens, with street photography as his favorite genre that evokes strong emotions. He also enjoys experimenting with shadows, reflections, and creating scenes with family or friends.
Third Place - Chris Yan
Chris Yan born in Beijing, China, in 1981, is an accomplished photographer and Creative Director. After earning a degree in art and design from the Communication University of China, Chris gained extensive experience working with top international advertising agencies such as Dentsu, JWT, and Leo Burnett. He has won more than 60 international and local creative awards and has served as a senior Creative Director. In 2013, he founded his own company to create and design advertisements for well-known brands such as BMW, Rolls-Royce, M&M's, and Dove.
Fourth Place -Joy Saha
Joy Saha is a Dhaka, Bangladesh-based photographer and visual journalist specialising in human and environmental stories. Passionate about documentary photography, he explores human lives and environmental issues, using his work to inspire action and evoke empathy. Joy highlights daily life, vulnerable communities, and the impacts of climate change, promoting global solidarity. His work has appeared in over 100 news outlets, including The Guardian, BBC, TIME, and National Geographic. An alumnus of the Oxford Climate Journalism Network, he remains committed to portraying human struggles and environmental impacts.
Fifth Place -Ludovic Viévard
Ludovic Viévard lives in Lyon, France, and has focused on street photography since 2023. For him, it’s a way to immerse himself in the present and capture everyday life moments. His style emphasises a dark aesthetic with raw images, strong contrasts, and blur, featuring the "in-between" moments when subjects realise they're being photographed. These fleeting moments reveal genuine emotions like surprise and joy, inviting reflection on self-image in a smartphone-driven world.
“Visions” Projects
Vision Series Street Conceptual
Joint winners: Nadia Eeckhout & Chris Yan
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When urban everyday moments meet – These photographs are part of a larger series of candid street portraits taken through windows.
My most important motive to take pictures in that way is that the person behind the glass and the reflections of ‘the other side’ on the window pane merge and become a new story; sometimes funny, disturbing, revealing … It feels like real-time fantasy, an encounter of the fantastic in the realistic, very present, obvious and accessible. It is about separate everyday stories turning together into a magical moment. To me, it is a marvel to discover those visual poems in a world which has become so predictable.
Reflections on windows in an urban setting are capricious, transparent, hard to catch; they are fleeting, fast, and ever-changing; they often fade away as quickly as they popped up. Two pictures of the same window scene, with only a split second in between, can generate completely different stories.
In this way, to me, reflections mirror the transience of life, the fleeting nature of (human) existence; they show that change is inevitable. In a broader sense, they embody birth, decay, and death; they witness life's fragility. And then there is that magical trick of photography that makes transience immortal in a fraction of time.
Nadia Eeckhout is a street photographer from Blankenberge, Belgium, has found her muse in Ghent. Since 2018, her camera has captured fleeting moments, creating timeless narratives. With a poetic approach to candid portraits and a fascination with reflections, Nadia’s work highlights the delicate beauty of everyday life. This article explores her artistic philosophy, defining techniques, and the impact of her inspiring talent.
Image Poetry of the City
When walking in the city, I often imagine myself as a poet, using my lens to find the most beautiful words and using light and shadow as rhythm. This series of works is a unique image poem.
Chris Yan, born in Beijing in 1981, is a talented photographer and Creative Director with a degree in art and design from the Communication University of China. He has worked with top advertising agencies like Dentsu and JWT, earning over 60 awards. In 2013, he founded his own company, creating ads for brands such as BMW and Dove. Chris combines commercial design with his love for street photography, showcasing his work globally in the Leica LFI Gallery and Photo VOGUE. His accolades include Street Photographer of the Year at the Paris International Street Photo Awards and multiple gold awards at international photo contests. His photography has been exhibited internationally and published widely.
Second Place - Vikas Nama
is a visual artist and photographer who explores the emotional dimensions of human experience. He began his training at the Raghu Rai Centre for Photography in 2014 and later earned a master’s degree at the University for the Creative Arts in the UK. For the past nine years, he has contributed to the Indian Photo Festival, enhancing its audience engagement. His work gained international recognition, including a second-place finish in the Series category at the 2019 Miami Street Photography Festival. Vikas's art explores themes of duality, distance, and the balance between light and darkness, using personal experiences to evoke feelings of longing, identity, and transformation.
Binary – Duality of Being consists of ten images that explore the fragile tension between opposing forces that shape human existence—life and death, creation and erasure, light and darkness.
The series reflects on how these opposing elements coexist and define one another. Through the interplay of shadow and illumination, the images attempt to visualise moments where presence and absence blur, suggesting the instability of identity and the transient nature of being. Rather than separating opposing forces, the work focuses on the space where they intersect, proposing that meaning often emerges from this delicate balance.
Third Place - Pepe Alvarez
Born in Madrid in 1966, Pepe lived in Murcia for 50 years. He is a full professor and researcher in environmental soil science at the university. His main hobby is photography, and he has been a member of the Asociación Punto de Enfoque for over 15 years, sharing experiences with fellow photographers. He also contributes to the photography magazine SYMART. He enjoys capturing human behaviour and interactions, and loves travelling and photographing wherever he goes.
This series aims to capture the evocative atmosphere that permeates the nighttime Holy Week processions in many Spanish cities. Hundreds of men and women move through the darkness like specters, creating captivating silhouettes and projecting their haunting shadows in the light of candles and lanterns.
Visions Series – Not Street
Winner – Jonathan Faus
is a Spanish visual artist, graphic designer, and photographer born in Valencia in 1985. He studied photography and lighting on a scholarship, later working as a photojournalist for Televisión Española and as a sports press photographer. Known for his conceptual and travel photography, Faus focuses on street and architectural photography in Greece, Japan, and the United States. His work has been exhibited at MuVIM in Valencia and has won awards, including recognition from the Moscow International Awards and Monovisions.
INSOMNIUM: Dreaming (from the Latin prefix "in-", meaning "ingressive") refers to dreaming, a phenomenon in which a series of images and hallucinations are experienced while asleep and perceived as real, reaching their peak intensity during the REM phase of sleep. Dreams are not subject to any kind of control; they constitute a work of art, where movement is always present. When dreaming, fantasy is perceived as reality, and irrational situations are represented that have a much deeper meaning than logic can recognise.
The general theory of dreams dates back to ancient Greece, where Hippocrates related them to mental health, Plato to the emergence of free instincts, and, more recently, Gestalt psychology, which refers to dreaming as the royal road to integration, the most spontaneous human production of existence.
Dreaming seeks a balance between our logical, conscious half and our unconscious half, where irrational images are reproduced, striving for equilibrium and wholeness within our being. According to Jung, “Dreaming is a spontaneous and symbolic self-interpretation of the current state of the unconscious. Human life is filled with a set of polarities, such as day and night, birth and death, joy and suffering, good and evil, and there is no certainty that one of these opposites will triumph over the other; this is a continuous struggle in which human beings find themselves.”
Reading each image separately has a rational meaning; by uniting them in the form of a diptych, we create a new visual imaginary where both polarities coexist. The work is an intermittent trail of photographs taken over time that connect with one another. As in dreams, the images become small breadcrumbs on which to build a story in which perception and interpretation prevail over the logic of the more descriptive image.
The project is situated at that inevitable moment when everyone feels the need to look inward, reflect, and interpret a still-incomplete path. A free space to pose questions that don't always find answers. On the horizon of a diptych, two images converge; the specific meaning of each fades away, becoming part of a whole that aims to transcend the limits of understanding, inviting us to interpretation.
Second Place - Stuart Hyde
Born in 1960 in the West Midlands, UK, is a painter and fine art photographer based in the Altiplano badlands of Granada, Spain. Trained under British artists Paul Rudall and W.R. Jennings, he focuses on capturing his environment while also exploring abstract photography and painting. His work, whether representational or abstract, reflects subliminal impressions, memories, and plein-air sketches.
'Episode':The series is intended to be viewed as a whole, and the order is crucial.
A series employing a performative/theatrical approach, but with the very serious intent of examining anxiety, specifically regarding anxiety in males. The series is designed as a channel for recognition and regulation, something I consider photography is uniquely well-placed to do, as it is accessible, non-verbal, and can be incredibly transformative. The viewing of images, as much as the process of making them, is not a passive act. Rather it can be an immediate path to the conscious and subconscious emotional self, and an opportunity to examine both lived experiences and, just as importantly, considered experiences, to reinterpret thought processes, responses and triggers.
Third Place – Sourav Das
Based in Kolaghat, West Bengal, Sourav Das is a dedicated photographer who utilises street and humanist photography to document the complexities of social change. He views the camera as a narrative tool, comparable to literature or music, capable of sketching the nuances of human customs and societal structures. Through his work, Das seeks to reveal the uneven realities of modern life, aiming to bridge the gap between visual storytelling and the broader human experience.
" Vision Beyond Sight "
They may live without sight, but not without vision. Each face tells a story of courage, dignity, and resilience—proof that true light shines from within, not through the eyes. These portraits are not about blindness, but about strength, spirit, and the unseen horizons of human life.
Visions Series – Street
Joint winners:
Marika Poquet Sultan Koḉ Rajesh Dhar
Marika comes from a family rich in arts, including musicians, sculptors, and writers. As the granddaughter of Leopold Chauveau, she's traveled extensively, exploring different cultures and traditions and how they influence our society. Since 2010, she has worked as a freelance photographer, immersing herself in the world's diversity—meeting people, experiencing cultures, and capturing their emotions and soul through her lens. She feels particularly drawn to street photography, where the genuine, unposed moments of life naturally unfold.
Through the camera, the photographer becomes the Eye of the City, capturing fleeting moments that reveal its hidden rhythms. In these streets, vision appears in many forms. Sometimes it is literal—an eye behind glasses, a gaze caught in a reflection, a face glimpsed in a mirror. Other times it emerges more subtly, in shapes, gestures, and fragments that resemble eyes without being human at all.
The city watches and is watched. A rear-view mirror, a reflection on glass, the round eye of a fish at a market stall, each becomes part of a network of silent observers. These layered perspectives blur the boundary between observer and subject, transforming ordinary moments into quiet exchanges of vision.
Within the constant movement of urban life, every photograph reveals another way of seeing. The “Eye of the City” is therefore not a single gaze, but a multitude of visions: human, reflective, symbolic, through which the life of the street quietly unfolds.
Sultan Koḉ
is a renowned Turkish street and documentary photographer, celebrated for her ability to capture intimate and culturally rich moments. She is particularly known for her award-winning photo series featuring the Şavak tribe in the Dersim mountains. Additionally, Sultan is actively involved in international photography communities. To learn more about her work and see her latest features, you can explore her curated collections on Progressive Street or check out her recent showcases in the Street Frames Gallery.
The heart of the world…
Smiles conscripted into grief, joys sentenced to mourning.
Hands trained to produce,
hands that rise in protest, that call out, accuse, demand, interrogate—
hands forced into silence,
archivists of what is unsaid,
fading under the weight of muted cries…
At the core of the world…
Voiceless calls resisting erasure
within lives turned into zones of fire.
Hands that refuse a world consumed by noise,
by slogans, by power, by indifference.
And the remaining proof of life,
the last political hope:
children…
