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Winners: Color Awards 2025
We are pleased to reveal the winners and finalists of the 2025 Color Awards, a distinction that celebrates the remarkable talent and creative vision of this year’s selected photographers. Each of them has demonstrated an outstanding ability to translate emotion, light, and form into powerful visual narratives that stand out in today’s photographic landscape.


GuruShots: Your Magazine Shot
Dodho Magazine partnered with GuruShots "The Worlds Greatest Photo Game" in a photo challenge contest titled "Your Magazine Shot"  Over 100,000 photos were submitted. GuruShots is a platform for people who love taking photos. GuruShots believes that taking photos is an amazing way to express one’s self. Wanting it to be fun and meaningful, GuruShots turned the sharing of ones photos into an exciting game packed with plenty of opportunities to show off one’s talent. Every month almost 4 billion votes are cast in over 400 themed challenges!








Practical Surrealism: What Man Ray Taught Photography
Man Ray taught us that photography is not here to obey. It is not a stenographer of reality, nor an optical procedure that certifies the existence of what we already saw. In his hands, the camera is not a recording machine but a thinking device, a portable lab where chance, irony, and disobedience become method.

Gurushots: Tell a Story
Dodho Magazine partnered with GuruShots "The Worlds Greatest Photo Game" in a photo challenge contest titled "Tell a Story"  Over 100,000 photos were submitted. GuruShots is a platform for people who love taking photos. GuruShots believes that taking photos is an amazing way to express one’s self.


Winners: Monochromatic Awards 2025
We are proud to present the outstanding photographers selected as winners and finalists of the 2025 Monochromatic Awards, a distinction that celebrates their remarkable presence and influence within the photographic world.


GuruShots: Photogenic
Dodho Magazine partnered with GuruShots "The Worlds Greatest Photo Game" in a photo challenge contest titled "Photogenic"  Over 100,000 photos were submitted. GuruShots is a platform for people who love taking photos. GuruShots believes that taking photos is an amazing way to express one’s self.

Reverie; A Photographic Journey by Daniel Bellman
Reverie is a visual meditation on the act of daydreaming, a journey through images that unfold like fragments of a dream. Each photograph stands on its own, yet gains depth through its connection to the ones before and after, inviting the viewer to abandon logic and drift into a state of intuitive reflection.



Markku Lahdesmaki Photographs the Soul of Sirkus Tähti
On a summer evening in Orivesi, Finland, photographer Markku Lahdesmaki stepped into the magical world of Circus Tähti. From backstage shadows to center-ring brilliance, his lens captured the performers’ quiet moments and dazzling acts in a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse of life under the big top.






The Forgotten Places by Frédéric Demeuse: Photographs of Untamed Nature
In The Forgotten Places, Frédéric Demeuse takes us deep into the world’s last untouched forests, primeval ecosystems where wild beauty reigns and serenity emerges from natural chaos. Over more than a decade, he has captured the living poetry of cloud forests, temperate rainforests, and remote woodlands across Europe, Central America, and Africa.



Florence Gallez: Being a Photographer in Times of Overexposure
In this interview, photographer Florence Gallez reflects on the meaning of creating images in an age of visual saturation. She explores themes like visibility, silence, authorship, and the emotional dimension of photography as a form of quiet resistance in a world of constant exposure.

Nude Photography in the Age of Censorship and Algorithms
In the age of automated censorship, nude photography faces new forms of control imposed by algorithms that ignore context and intention. This article explores how digital platforms reshape the representation of the body, turning nudity into a cultural and political battleground.

Eternal Family by Byun Soon Choel: Virtual Portraits Reuniting Displaced Families
In Eternal Family, South Korean photographer Byun Soonchoel uses cutting-edge imaging technology to virtually reunite families separated by the Korean War. Blending documentary intent with digital reconstruction, his portraits offer a haunting vision of what could have been, where memory, absence, and technology converge to heal invisible wounds.

Unfiltered Autobiography: Nan Goldin’s Radical Legacy
Nan Goldin never staged a version of herself. Her photographs were not declarations, but confessions, raw, bruised, trembling. She used the camera not to construct identity but to survive it. In a world obsessed with curating imperfections for aesthetic effect, Goldin exposed the cost of real intimacy.


Art Without an Audience: Lessons from Vivian Maier’s Legacy
Vivian Maier spent her life creating in silence, walking the streets with a camera but no desire for recognition. In an age that equates visibility with value, her refusal to share feels almost radical. What if she was right? What if the true act of creative freedom is not to be seen, not to perform, but to observe quietly and trust the work to speak for itself, eventually, or maybe never?


What Henri Cartier-Bresson Would Not Shoot Today
Henri Cartier-Bresson taught us to wait for the decisive moment, but in today’s image deluge that quiet fraction of a second risks drowning in algorithms and selfie rituals. This piece argues that the French master would decline to photograph the polished influencer latte, the staged disaster clip, the AI-fabricated sunset and the disposable story that vanishes after a day.





Erwin Recinos: Earthlink Orange County Photo Series
Erwin Recinos’ Earthlink series captures the soul of Southern California through vivid photographic postcards taken along the Metrolink rail system. Created for the Earth Day 2023 campaign “A Picture is Worth a Thousand Rides,” the series blends themes of sustainability, community, and urban identity. With a decade-long career documenting Los Angeles culture, Recinos offers a personal and timely vision of places that may soon be transformed by time and progress.

Silence in Photography: The Power of Leaving Things Unsaid
Silence in photography is not absence, but presence tuned just below the surface. It is what happens when a frame stops explaining and begins to suggest. The image no longer performs, it invites. A viewer pauses, leans in, and something shifts. That quiet tension, hard to measure yet deeply felt, is what gives certain photographs their lasting weight. They do not need to shout to leave a mark — they simply know when not to speak.


What You Probably Didn’t Know About Leica Cameras
A Leica is not just a camera, it is a way of being in the world. From its nearly silent shutter to the ritual of loading film, every detail is designed to make the photographer an active part of the image. It gives you nothing for free. It forces you to look, to wait, to earn the photograph. And perhaps for that reason, every click carries a different weight. You do not shoot out of habit, you shoot with intent.

The True Story of Gina by João Coelho: A Life Between Shadows and Dreams
Gina walks into the night each evening, wearing high heels that bruise her feet and a wig that helps her become someone else. She doesn’t sell her body out of choice but out of necessity, shaped by years of silence, abuse, and abandonment. What began as a survival mechanism has become a life lived in the alleys of Luanda, where fleeting intimacy pays for food and fleeting highs provide relief.

Street Photography Urban Poetry or Privacy Invasion
Every image is both a gift from the city and a possible intrusion into someone’s invisible shield. Street photography walks that delicate edge where a poetic moment can suddenly become an intrusive gesture. Capturing the invisible demands sensitivity, but also an ethical awareness that goes beyond the shutter.

Lolita Dreams by Tianhu Yuan: Redefining the Lolita Subculture in China
In Lolita Dreams, Chinese visual artist Tianhu Yuan documents the transformation of the Lolita fashion subculture in China, highlighting how its participants have distanced it from Western misconceptions. Through intimate portraits and interviews, he reveals a world where cuteness, elegance, and femininity become tools for self-expression, cultural reinterpretation, and identity beyond the Nabokovian narrative.

10 little-known curiosities about Elliott Erwitt
Elliott Erwitt may be known for his sharp wit and iconic dog portraits, but behind the humor lies a story full of unexpected turns. From mopping floors to pay for film school to directing comedy shorts for HBO and inventing a fake artist to mock the contemporary art world, Erwitt’s career is a masterclass in blending discipline with irreverence.