Photo Review

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Waves. They’re all around us. Sometimes they’re obvious and sometimes they’re very subtle indeed. And, once again, our loyal Photo Challengers tackled the topic with their usual enthusiasm and creativity.

The ‘One...’ challenge arose from an exercise photographer Paul Gummer (Photo Review, Issue #52) often sets for his students; namely to photograph a single object against a plain background.

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For our Portals and Thresholds challenge, we asked photographers to capture an opening that might provoke a viewer to wonder where looking or even stepping through might lead.

The idea of the Summer Postcard challenge was for photographers to create imagery that would in some way capture the feeling of summer – in a postcardy sort of way.

Our ’Tools of the Trade’ challenge was inspired by the editor’s encounter with a well-worn old brace-and-bit, and in particular with how evocative it was of his long dead grandfather.

The habitat challenge asked photographers to go out into the world and photograph people in, as we said at the time, what might be described as their native environment.