Sensing the world around you
Sucheta Das, International
Capture the human senses 2013 marked the ninth edition of Metro Photo Challenge, and we were incredibly excited about letting the world loose on this editions topic. For 2013, we asked our readers to capture more of a process than a thing. A process both they and their camera have a lot of experience with: sensing the world around them. We know the camera is an expert at sensing and recording visual phenomena, but how did the participants persuade it to capture other stimuli, like taste and touch? So it’s with great gratitude and a truly honour to be able to present this fine selection of some of the best photos submitted in the six categories: Hearing, Sight, The Six Sense, Smell, Taste and Touch. With more than 120.000 images submitted by 39.000 participants in 203 countries, Metro Photo Challenge continues as the world’s largest photo competition. A great thanks to all sponsors, partners and jury members for making Metro Photo Challenge 2013 an incredible success.
See you all for the 10th edition anniversary of Metro Photo Challenge in autumn 2014!
Hearing Our senses of hearing and sight are closely linked. Visual clues help us understand what we hear people say to us, and soundtracks and other types of auditory stimuli enhance the way we experience visual input. But what about hearing alone? And the sounds we hear? Can these phenomena be expressed in a photograph? We often hear thunder – or maybe that eerie silence – before we see the storm. And we live in a world of sounds that send all kinds of signals to us. Every hour of every day.
Ana Cecilia Armejo, Peru
Oleksandr Svysunov, Russia
Juaeliton Campos, Brazil
Eva-Maria Steger, Portugal
Ricardo Biserra, Brazil
Saumalya Ghosh, USA
Gui Lopes, Brazil
Tara Lowry, Canada
Esthefania Bedoya, International
Peter Leone, Brazil
Pascal Deruyck, Belgium
Dignitas, International
Thijs Brienen, Netherlands
Noora Eronen, Belgium
Marcel Jirรกsek, Czech Republic
Felipe Sant Ana Pereira, Brazil
Fokje Otter, Netherlands
Stephan Lemay, French Canada
Chris Stephens, Sweden
Felipe Valduga, USA
Armando Serralde, Mexico
Dimas Oliveira, Brazil
Roy Fochtman, International
Arianne van der Veen, Netherlands
Sara Vertanen, Finland
Ale Silva, Brazil
Marcio Fabian, Brazil
SIGHT Of course you can take pictures of things – asking your camera to act as a third eye that records the things you see. But can you photograph the seeing itself? And if so, how would you do it? Is our sense of sight about our own physiology? The way our eyes and mind deal with visual input? Or is it a form of negotiation between the thing we see and the way we see it? Do our eyes even have to be involved? They’re not when we see things in dreams, are they?
Jan Mohammad Shaikh, International
Amélie Legrand, France
Erdõs Júlia, Hungary
Алексей Ханыков, Russia
Sudipto Das, International
Simon Victor, Sweden
Karine Gazaryan, Russia
Gerardo Torres, Chile
Kanehun Kane, Hong Kong
Valk贸 D谩vid, Hungary
AbĂlio Silveira, Portugal
Mario Cucchi, International
Felicia Simion, Canada
Regien Paassen, Holland
Carlos Rosas, International
Ilyas Essadek, Belgium
Sandip Das, USA
Mounir Rabhi Hallner, Sweden
Cristian Cadiz Contreras, Chile
Renata Maranh채o, Brazil
Mila Ivanova, International
Majed Alfaraj, USA
Johan Persson, Sweden
Bruno Gomes, Brazil
Martin Martel, French Canada
Lia Marmelstein, International
SIXTH SENSE Nobody knows what the sixth sense is but you. Is it a premonition that something is about to happen? Or is it the return of a loved one to haunt your dreams – or daydreams? Is it déjà vu? Is it an out-of-body experience? Is it visual, auditory, tactile…? Or is it beyond ordinary sensory perception – that gnawing sensation in the pit of your stomach? The deeply personal nature of the sixth sense makes this theme the most challenging of all this year. You’re on your own. You and your camera. And – for this theme alone and only if you wish – your retouching and advanced editing skills.
Tani Pilz, International
Юлия Напольская, Russia
Юлия Напольская, Russia
Evgeny Matveev, Russia
T贸th Zolt谩n, Hungary
Natan Bolckmans, Belgium
Lukas Marcel, Colombia
Ana LĂgia, Brazil
Maja Topagic, International
Olof Holm, Sweden
David Mauquoy, Belgium
Carlos Pinho, France
Tania Volobueva, Russia
Alexey Mikhaylov, Russia
Federico Ariu, Belgium
Sebastiรกn Aliaga Mena, Peru
Dominika Wypych, Sweden
Dongjoo Artursson, Sweden
AudrĂŠ Kieffer, French Canada
Юлия Напольская, Russia
Desiree Meijer, Netherlands
Colin Pauwels, Belgium
Raphael Alves, Brazil
GaĂŤtan Chekaiban, France
Sára Révai, Hungary
AudrĂŠ Kieffer, French Canada
Dmitri Maruta, Russia
Denise Abbade Miller da Silva, International
SMELL A rose smells like a rose, but what does that smell like? Just abstractly? Translated into another sense? Can your camera capture the scent of a rose? Or of anything else? Are some scents easier to capture visually than others? And when, where and how do scents leave their traces? Perhaps it would make more sense – to you – to explore the act of smelling. The practice of the sense. Who engages in it? People, to be sure, but people as cultured beings – or as the human animal? Or maybe just plain animals.
Hans Bornfalk, Sweden
Juha Lampinen, Finland
Adriana Garcia Assis, Portugal
Octavio Benalcazar Rivera, Ecuador
Thais Buarque, Brazil
Francesco Grillo, Italy
Ciaran Butler, International
Andres David Jaramillo Lafuente, Ecuador
Rosane Motta, Brazil
Ricky Siegers, Netherlands
Mario Dias, Brazil
Sofia Ă–rberg, Sweden
Anderson Augusto, Brazil
Marcel van Balken, Netherlands
Raphael Alves, Brazil
Sudipto Das, International
Garamvári Gábor, Netherlands
Jossefien Mongaré, Belgium
Taste What does taste look like? Is it in colour or black and white? Do different tastes have different colours or shades of grey? And where does a taste actually reside? Is it in the thing that tastes? Or is it inside you, only coming to life when you taste something that tastes? Good or bad. Pure or more diffuse. Can a taste sound like anything? Can you feel a taste? And is it possible to imagine a world without taste? If so, what would life be like? Surely less interesting – but different in other ways too? Is taste only about pleasure or displeasure? Or does our sense of taste serve other, less obvious purposes?
AudrĂŠ Kieffer, French Canada
Anderson, Brazil
Helga Boom, Belgium
Thiago Lontra, Brazil
Rodrigo Corona, Mexico
David BermĂşdez Medina, Colombia
Jim Henderson, Canada
Marcelo Teixeira, Brazil
Virginia Yunes, Brazil
Ирина Козороr, Russia
Leo Vainio, Finland
Dennis Keizer, Netherlands
Salym Fayad, Colombia
Tomรกs Svoboda, Czech Republic
Gabriel PĂŠrez, Mexico
Nagy Antal Balรกzs, Hungary
Isabelle Theiller, France
Kicia Randagia, Italy
Charlotte Valerie Feijen, Netherlands
Petr Žižák, Czech Republic
Cathy Bjรถrk, Sweden
Kurt Drubbel, Belgium
Natasha Mota, Brazil
J.C. Celmer, Brazil
Audrey DubĂŠ, French Canada
Guillaume Marlin, France
Martina Gebarovska, Czech Republic
TOUCH Close your eyes and touch something near you – your phone, a pen, your own shoe, maybe. Can you describe it in visual terms? Sure, you could trace its outline and probably even draw it. But what about the way it feels to the skin? Soft, steely, clammy, rough, porous, wet‌ Can you capture tactile sensations with your camera, and express them in purely visual terms? Or do we really have to portray a touch to communicate this human sense visually? A tickling feather. Toes in the sand. A paper cut. The first caress.
Santhosh Kumar, USA
Shanna Maassen, Netherlands
Emmy Persson, Sweden
Maurice Spees, International
Pedro Nunes Siqueira, Brazil
Manon Van Wezenbeek, Netherlands
Ale Vianna, Brazil
Anderson Fagundes, Brazil
Raquel Huijgen, Netherlands
Raquel Huijgen, Netherlands
Alexis Robitaille, French Canada
J贸zsef Vavreczky, Hungary
Gaรกl Benjรกmin, Hungary
Adrienn J贸zan, Hungary
Tamรกs Berki, Hungary
Daniel Rosero, Ecuador
Frank Joe Hansen, International
Gianfranco Zanobini, Peru
Antoine De Winter, Belgium
Tamรกs Gillicze, Hungary
Javier Rincon, Guatemala
Daniel Ponce de Leon, Sweden
Raquel Huijgen, Netherlands
JĂşlio Matheus, Brazil
Maciej Makowski, International
Dongjoo Artursson, Sweden
Focusing on the future Reach for Change invests in social entrepreneurs with ideas for improving the lives of children. Through our work in 2013, we improved the lives of over 1 million kids across the globe. In order to identify the challenges we collectively face, we strive to see and understand the world from a child’s perspective and listen to children’s stories. Each and every one of these amazing photos of children that was submitted during Metro Photo Challenge 2013 tells a powerful story. We believe it’s our responsibility to listen to them. Reachforchange.org All photos from Metro Photo Challenge 2013.
Credits Photographers Abílio Silveira Adriana Garcia Assis Adrienn Józan Ale Silva Ale Vianna Alexey Mikhaylov Alexis Robitaille Amélie Legrand Ana Cecilia Armejo Ana Lígia Anderson Augusto Anderson Fagundes Andres David Jaramillo Lafuente Antoine De Winter Arianna van der Veen Armando Serralde Audré Kieffer Audré Kieffer Audré Kieffer Audrey Dubé Bruno Gomes Carlos Pinho Carlos Rosas Cathy Björk Charlotte Valerie Feijen Chris Stephens Ciaran Butler Colin Pauwels Cristian Cadiz Contreras Cyril Blanchard (Cover)
Daniel Ponce de Leon Daniel Rosero David Bermúdez Median David Mauquoy Denise Abbade Miller da Silva Dennis Keizer Desiree Meijer Dignitas Dimas Oliveira Dmitri Maruta Dominika Wypych Dongjoo Artursson Dongjoo Artursson Elena Kuznetsova Emmy Persson Erdõs júlia Esthefania Bedoya Eva-Maria Steger Evgeny Matveev Federico Ariu Felicia Simion Felipe Sant Ana Pereira Felipe Valduga Fokje Otter Francesco Grillo Frank Joe Hansen Gaál Benjámin Gabriel Pérez Gaëtan Chekaiban Garamvári Gábor Gerardo Torres
Gianfranco Zanobini Gui Lopes Guillaume Marlin Hans Bornfalk Helga Boom Ilyas Essadek Isabelle Theiller J.C. Celmer Jan Mohammad Shaikh Javier Rincon, Jim Henderson Johan Persson Jossefien Mongaré József Vavreczky Juaeliton Campos Juha Lampinen Júlio Matheus Kanehun Kane Karine Gazaryan Kicia Randagia Kurt Drubbel Leo Vainio Lia Marmelstein Lukas Marcel Maciej Makowski Maja Topcagic Majed Alfaraj Manon Van Wezenbeek Marcel Jirásek Marcel van Balken Marcelo Teixeira
Marcio Fabian Mario Cucchi Mario Dias Martin Martel Martina Gebarovska Maurice Spees Mila Ivanova Mounir Rabhi Hallner Nagy Antal Balázs Natan Bolckmans Natasha Mota Noora Eronen Octavio Benalcazar Rivera Oleksandr Svysunov Olof Holm Pascal Deruyck Pedro Nunes Siqueira Peter Leone, Petr Žižák Raphael Alves Raphael Alves Raquel Huijgen Raquel Huijgen Raquel Huijgen Regien Paassen Renata Maranhão Ricardo Biserra Ricky Siegers Rodrigo Corona Rosane Motta Roy Fochtman
Salym Fayad Sandip Das Santhosh Kumar Sára Révai Sara Vertanen Saumalya Ghosh Sebastián Aliaga Mena Shanna Maassen Simon Victor Sofia Örberg Stephan Lemay Sucheta Das Sudipto Das Sudipto Das Tamás Berki Tamás Gillicze Tani Pilz Tania Volobueva Tara Lowry Thais Buarque Thiago Lontra Thijs Brienen Tomás Svoboda Tóth Zoltán Twan Zijlstra Valkó Dávid Virginia Yunes Алексей Ханыков Ирина Козороr Юлия Напольская Юлия Напольская
Publisher: Metro International Cover photo: Cyril Blanchard, France, Metro Photo Challenge 2013 Production and layout: Emilie Rud, Metro International | Johanna Runebjörk, Metro International Partners: Reach for Change and Colourbox
Reach for Change page Top left to right Karine Gazaryan Carolina Silva Marcela Muñoz Krizia Trabucco Kasper Nymann Leandro Martins Владимир Ламзин Alexis Zorba Andreas Schiffer Lennart Östling Janne Olkkonen Samir Zarrouk Brice Retailleau Claudia Benavides Marie Tihon Nuno Lobito Bernabe Della Mattia Dongjoo Artursson Marina Gensmann
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