As one in every of China’s maximum influential skilled pictures competitions, the BEST 10 Images Festival, arranged by way of the 500px Images Group underneath Visible China Staff—has lengthy been dedicated to finding and supporting exceptional photographic skill, setting up itself as a benchmark in China’s imaging business. Since its inception, the competition has been held 17 instances, receiving over 5.8 million submissions and attracting greater than 110,000 contributors.
In 2024, the BEST 10 Images Festival opened for submissions on 20 December 2024. All the way through the 71-day submission duration, it drew participation from over 21,000 photographers and gained 330,000+ entries. After rigorous analysis {and professional} curation by way of the 500px editorial group, 60 successful works had been decided on throughout 3 classes: Picture Collection of the 12 months, Unmarried Symbol of the 12 months, and Video of the 12 months.
Nowadays, we’re overjoyed to announce the winners of the BEST 10 Images Festival.
Picture Collection of the 12 months
10 photographers had been awarded on this class, together with Wangkai Wei, Xun Ren, Weikai Chen, Jinyi He, Wenqi Lin, Xiaodong Zeng, Xiaotong Jia, Zi Rui Liu, Ruochen Kong, Zi Jin.
(Highlights from the gathering)
“Little Moments” by way of Wenqi Lin
Wenqi Lin’s Little Moments recreates post-80s adolescence reminiscences via meticulously crafted miniature scenes. Nostalgic main points—an previous electrical fan, pale wall pictures, and freshly lower watermelon—shipping audience to a pre-smartphone technology of innocence. The nice and cozy lighting fixtures and rustic textures have a good time the easy joys of the previous.
“Little Moments” by way of Wenqi Lin
Unmarried Symbol of the 12 months
Nature
10 winners, together with Zhengjie Wu, A Little Squint, Xuanhua Li, Feng Xiong, Jiandong Hao, Bin Chen, Xuhaha, ATIME-PHOTOGRAPHY, Ruijiao Li, Egg.
“Kailash and Ice” by way of Egg
Egg’s Kailash and Ice captures Tibet’s Mount Kailash the use of focus-stacking ways to juxtapose the mountain’s grandeur with the sacred panorama. The composition balances glacial permanence towards swirling clouds, merging nature’s majesty with religious transcendence.
“Kailash and Ice” by way of Egg
Documentary
10 winners, together with Lun Yu, Xiaokang Xu, Kinguv Shi, Qiang Solar, Weipeng Zheng, Yuanwai Wang, Wenpeng Lu, Ran An, 2middle, Xiangsheng Zhang.
“Liangshan Yi Funeral” by way of Kinguv Shi
Kinguv Shi’s Liangshan Yi Funeral paperwork a burial rite in Sichuan’s Yi Self sustaining Prefecture. Mourners in black charva (woolen capes) march via heavy snow, their solemnity contrasted by way of snow-capped mountains—a poignant meditation on lifestyles and nature.
“Liangshan Yi Funeral” by way of Kinguv Shi
City
10 winners, together with RX-105 XI, Shuhe Zhang, Mandy, Jun Shen, Leo Cai, Xuecheng Liu, Hao Liu, The Wind Rings the Bell, Sulin Yang, Yuan Li.
“Cosmic Heart” by way of Xuecheng Liu
Xuecheng Liu’s Cosmic Heart reimagines New York’s Instances Sq. via an aerial landscape. The usage of complicated sewing ways, the {photograph} transforms concentric skyscrapers right into a radiant vortex, with steel-and-glass facades converging towards the body’s heart.
“Cosmic Heart” by way of Xuecheng Liu
Business & Ingenious
10 winners, together with Jinyang Ding, Dull Filming, Yao, Fadis Ding, Xiyuan Chen, Shuai Bian, Huizhao Li, Yanquan Lin, Tianhang Zhang, Chen Qiu.
“Summer time Birthday party” by way of Dull Filming
Summer time Birthday party employs aerial pictures and virtual compositing to synchronize human job from other temporal moments inside of a unmarried body. The result’s a colourful tableau of surreal whimsy, turning an bizarre summer time scene into one thing peculiar.
“Summer time Birthday party” by way of Dull Filming
Video of the 12 months
10 winners, together with: Jiyuan Wang, Ruiyu Track, Luxiang Zhu, Changsen Chi, Zukai Wang, Ziyu Wang, Wenfei Li, Fing, Yonghui Zhao, Cycle.
“My 12 months 2024” by way of Cycle
Cycle’s My 12 months 2024 is a first-person chronicle of year-round adventures—from snow-capped summits to tropical rainforests, rocket release websites to Xinjiang’s icy barren region. Via rapid-fire modifying and immersive cinematography, the video captures the highs and lows of exploration, reflecting humanity’s ongoing discussion with the planet.
2024 BEST 10 Images Awards Effectively Conclude
This 12 months, we witnessed numerous peculiar moments frozen in time, celebrating pictures’s energy to go beyond borders, languages, and cultures.
Discover all successful works in our gallery.
Particular due to our companions for his or her beneficial beef up. Your accept as true with and collaboration have empowered those shocking visible tales to polish.
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