Featured by the Editorial Team

Featured Submissions

This section presents selected photographs from the works submitted to Evi Mono Awards. Chosen for their visual strength, originality, or distinctive interpretation of the theme, these images are considered especially worth sharing with our audience.

THE CYCLE / Mark Lamb / United Kingdom / WEBSITE NOT PROVIDED

  • A scene from the contemporary dance work 'The Cycle', exploring the emotional repetition and uncertainty experienced by families living with alcoholism.

THREE GENERATIONS - ONE GENE / Pamela Hanlan / USA / WEBSITE

  • Three generations of women carried the same cancer gene. She holds her grandmother’s portrait, wears her mother’s memory on her skin, and bears the scars of choosing a different future.

MU’ALLIMA ROUHIA. Owner of the Slaughterhouse / Ebrahim Kandel / Egipt / WEBSITE NOT PROVIDED

  • A photographic documentation of 'Mu'allima Rouhia' managing work inside the slaughterhouse, surrounded by her sons who work alongside her. Sitting with steadfastness and confidence amidst a harsh working environment, her presence embodies the leadership role of women, their capacity to manage a gruelling family business, and their ability to command respect and authority in the heart of this challenging field.

WITNESSES / Hasan Dehghandoost / / Iran / WEBSITE

  • In silence, every face tells a different story. Together, they embody resilience, identity, and the quiet strength of women.

ACCEPTANCE / Yhonwill Domínguez / Dominican Republic / WEBSITE

  • Acceptance is the moment when grief ceases to be only pain and becomes a legacy. Through a woman and the violin she holds, the image represents what endures beyond the passage of time: memory, love, strength, and the stories one generation passes on to the next. Acceptance does not mean forgetting; it means understanding that those who leave a lasting mark continue to live on through what they have left behind and what we inherit from them.

THE SHEPHERDESS / Omar Mokhtar Mohammed / Egipt / WEBSITE

  • Every step of the way is a new stop. Her features tell years of fatigue and patience, but she still completes her journey with the same stability. In the middle of the road and its sheep, it reminds us that life is not reaching the end, but passing through stations that make us and change us until we become who we are today.

ISABEL, 14, AND ANNA, 79 / Robert Kalman / USA / WEBSITE

  • Eleanor Roosevelt once wrote: "Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art." In the rural Nicaraguan farming village of Larreynaga, one finds this beauty everywhere. Both the teenager, Isabel, and the grandmother, Anna, gazing out their iron-rodded windows, evoke the truth of Mrs. Roosevelt's observation.

MS SUNG THI CO / Ajia Tiplady / New Zealand / WEBSITE

  • In the remote mountains of Ha Giang, Ms Sung Thi Co carefully creates traditional batik by hand. A craft passed down through generations of Hmong women in Northern Vietnam.

THE LANGUAGE OF PEACE STATEMENT / Dominika Marsovszká / Slovakia / WEBSITE NOT PROVIDED

  • This self-portrait captures a raw, authentic ritual of healing and rebirth following a mastectomy. The live butterfly spent the entire day in our garden before my husband brought it inside on a sunflower. In an intimate moment of connection, I spoke to the butterfly, asking it to join me in creating this image. After setting up the camera and dramatic lighting myself, the butterfly willingly rested on my chest. In that exact moment, despite the visceral release of past trauma captured in my expression, I felt an overwhelming sense of peace and comfort. This unmanipulated photograph stands as a testament to the profound connection between human vulnerability and the gentle resilience of nature.

THE SCENT OF MEMORY / Viet Van Tran / Vietnam / WEBSITE

  • I wheeled my mother into the garden she once tended with her own hands. Though dementia had erased much of her memory and illness had weakened her body, she leaned toward a leaf as if recognizing its familiar scent. This image is part of my ten-year project, Mom, My Hero.

MOTHER / Raquel Trejo / Australia / WEBSITE

  • Mother is an analogue underwater self-portrait series made with a reclaimed Nikonos camera, black-and-white film, natural light, and seawater.

    The camera was designed to protect film from water. In this project, I work with the failure of that protection. Seawater enters the camera body and alters the negative, leaving scratches, stains, softness, light leaks, and partial erasure. The ocean becomes part of the photographic process, changing the image as it is made.

    The series began from the emotional rupture of motherhood and the difficulty of holding care, attachment, responsibility, and loss at the same time. I use my own body underwater to explore maternal transformation, vulnerability, pressure, and the loss of control. The damaged negative becomes a physical record of that experience.

    In this image, my daughter appears to emerge from a larger female form created through light, water, and damaged film. The photograph holds two generations inside one unstable photographic body: mother, daughter, ocean, and negative. Through this process, MOTHER asks how analogue photography can carry psychological and ecological states through the material life of the image itself.

EXILE OF EMPTINESS / Sharafat Zami / Bangdladesh / WEBSITE NOT PROVIDED

  • Lost between light and shadow - a quiet portrait of solitude, mystery, and the invisible emotions we carry