INSPIRATIONAL
m a r y
c i m e t t a
The Winner is Mary Cimetta!
A big congrats to Mary *
myraincheck who won The Yard Collective's Autumn "Street Photography Competition"! Her winning image outperformed the rest of the competition and was by far the most popular amongst the judges. A more deserving winner is hard to think of since she always delivers as a street photographer. Her images are often ones that will require you to look at it for a while before your brain sees that extra dimension that she so often adds to her images.
- - - - - ¤ ¤ ¤ - - - - -
Her winning entry, image #48 in the Yard Shed Collection
[link]

Like one of the judges, Nick Turpin, said: ”This is a classic street photograph, something extremely simple and everyday that has been elevated by the act of photography into something surreal and ambiguous. There is the implication of a little narrative here, what is the relationship between the man and the boys if any? What are they doing?”
- - - - - ¤ ¤ ¤ - - - - -
Her other two entries:


A selection of her images:
Well face it, she kicked all our... Like in this image

A remarkable resemblance, however, they are in fact not actual twins

The more you look at this one the more wonderful it gets

Dude, where is your leg?

Found it!

I too wish I was raised in a Catholic country, where else would this happen?

The text in Italian is imperative, "With the head among the clouds". Spot on!

Well these two guys actually are twins!


- - - - - ¤ ¤ ¤ - - - - -
THE JUDGES
Swedish MATS ALFREDSSON
[link]Street gallery moderator at fotosidan.se

JULIEN COQUENTIN from Montreal, Canada
[link]Finalist in the London Street Photography Festival International Award

Dutch ANNIETA KRUISMAN
[link]External Relations Officer of The Yard Collective

Israeli FELIX LUPA
[link]Highly aclaimed news and street photographer

DAVID SOLOMONS from the UK
[link]Very aclaimed street shooter

JOËL SUEUR, a.k.a. Sudor from France
[link]Legend among dA street photography lovers

Englishman NICK TURNPIN
[link]Founder of iN-PUBLIC

LUKAS VASILIKOS from Greece
[link]Street photographer that has received a lot of appraisal

American BRIAN Q. WEBB residing in Taiwan
[link]Street photographer and former street moderator of dA

The Yard Collective's own .com website [link]