Photo of the month for May 2023 by Efi Longinou, as voted by BME members.
Some words from Efi about the photo:
“This photo is part of an ongoing project of mine called '' Songs from the second floor''. I took it in Güstrow, a smaller city in Germany, on one of our family excursions. We regularly leave Berlin on the weekends and explore other areas closer to nature. Güstrow, 2023”
Photo of the month for April 2023 by Gustavo Minas, as voted by BME members.
Some words from Gustavo about the photo:
“Of course Istanbul has always been on my wishlist, so I got very excited about the invitation from @istanbul_street_photo_festival to attend the festival, alongside my BME fellow Barry Talis. The day I took the photo I was teaching a private workshop, and the weather hadn’t been good the whole afternoon, so we were more chatting and having tea than shooting. Then early evening we got to Eminonu and spotted this scene. At first I thought it was a bit too obvious, but decided to give it a try anyway. I took 6 or 7 frames, but wasn’t very happy with them, until a gust of wind came and blew her dress, and I think this is what makes it. Danis, my student, took some good shots of the scene as well, but he had a wider lens on, so everything is in focus, and the woman eating corn is looking back at the couple.”
Photo of the month for March 2023 by Don Hudson, as voted by BME members.
Some words from Don about the photo:
“Since 2010, a few years after shutting down my last darkroom, I have been periodically going through my negatives and contact sheets from the last century looking for images, that for whatever reason, I didn't "see" some 40+ years ago. I have to say it's been fun. This is an image that I never so much as made a work print or even circled on the contact sheet as a possible keeper at the time. But about two weeks ago it caught my contemporary eye. I think partly I was attracted to this image because it made me remember growing up in the late 1950's after our family moved to a new subdivision, and my friends and I would play in the construction sites of new homes. Pretty sure nostalgia had nothing to do with me taking this shot at 28 years old, some 20 years removed from my childhood memories, but now 44 years from this moment, it serves to conjure my long relationship with time.”
Photo of the month for February 2023 by Lukas Vasilikos, as voted by BME members.
Some words from Lukas about the photo:
“I took that photo in a bar in Athens last December. It is part of a project that I have been working on, focusing on the atmosphere of bars and parties.”
Photo of the month for January 2023 by Efi Longinou, as voted by BME members.
Some words from Efi about the photo:
“This photo is part of an ongoing project of mine called ''Songs from the Second floor''. ''At the same time every night for the last few years, a piano melody is heard from the second floor. One floor below, the story of my family unfolds.'' In this project, I document our journey together in a state of dreams. Berlin, 2023.”
Photo of the month for December 2022 by Don Hudson, as voted by BME members.
Some words from Don about the photo:
“For the past 12 years I have been photographing community events and parades at 4 small rural towns near our family cottage in northern Michigan. Not much happens in these towns most days, but at least once a year each community hosts an event that brings out folks from the area. What I hope to do is continue to photograph at these events for another 12 years or so and compile a record of a generation. This particular photo was made in July 2022 during the Luther Logging Days festival in Luther, Michigan.”
Photo of the month for November 2022 by Dimitris Makrygiannakis, as voted by BME members.
Some words from Dimitris about the photo:
“In the spring of 2022 I visited Prague for the 9th time to shoot, with no clue what I would find this time. There is this park close to Charles’ bridge which is beautiful, quiet and a place I “meditate”. There are several peacocks in this park but I had not really paid that much attention to them before, except 1-2 photos I had from previous trips. This was the first day of my trip and this was the first photo of that first day. In some magic way the rest of the trip got focused on peacocks, like a new project. I am thinking sometimes that this wide open mouth shouts welcome to me and my new project.”
Photo of the month for October 2022 by Valeria Tofanelli, as voted by BME members.
Some words from Valeria about the photo:
“I took this photo the first day of a trip to Lanzarote. I was immediately fascinated by this island, where the landscape offers scenes so different from where I live. I was going to visit a museum when I saw a person walking on the edge of a wall. I don’t know exactly what he was doing, but it got me curious, so I followed the man for a few feet and took some pictures. In the end I chose this one because I think there is more ambiguity in the interpretation of the scene.”
For September 2022, 2 photos shared the first place for photo of the month, as voted by BME members. This is the second of the 2 photos, by Lukas Vasilikos.
Some words from Lukas about the photo:
“I took that photo in a jazz bar in Berlin. While enjoying the music of a live band, I saw in the crowd sitting at the bar a girl with a friend. I thought her face was photographically interesting, and I approached her intending to ask her to take a picture of her. She accepted gladly, and she posed for me. Berlin 2022.”
For September 2022, 2 photos shared the first place for photo of the month, as voted by BME members. This is the first of the 2 photos, by Valeria Tofanelli.
Some words from Valeria about the photo:
“I was walking in the evening along the beach of Ostia the day after a violent storm had destroyed most of some bathing establishments. The landscape was surreal, especially if I think about how those places are in summer. Many workers had started to clean the area to rebuild the bathing establishments and towards the end of the day I saw this man who was still cleaning a restaurant from the debris brought by the sea. I took several photos to fix that moment, after which I greeted the man and continued on my way.”
Photo of the month for August 2022 by Dimitris Makrygiannakis, as voted by BME members.
Some words from Dimitris about the photo:
“The story of this photo is not that exciting. One of those “I pass by something, I see and I shoot” photos. More interesting is the fact that from the very beginning I shot it, I was annoyed with the small sign with the social media links of the street artist. I wished I could use the erase tool and get rid of it, but I am not really into erasing things from my photos. So since I thought that the rest was very interesting, I decided to keep the photo and post it online. After that I realised that I could at least send the photo to the street artist and so I did. It is not usual we can know who the people we are shooting are, so finally this sign served a good purpose I think.”
Photo of the month for July 2022 by Dimitris Makrygiannakis, as voted by BME members.
Some words from Dimitris about the photo:
“I made this photo in a recent photo trip in Prague this May. Was the 5th day of the trip and although all previous days I was taking the tram passing just outside my apartment to reach the areas of the city with most photographic action, this certain day I decided to do something different. Walked all the way from my apartment to reach a spot of the Vltava river I never been before, just to see something new. The walk was about 3 hours and it honestly felt like a wrong decision. Passing through uninteresting residential areas for all those 3 hours, I started thinking the photographic day was lost. And then I reach the river. And the first thing I see is this swan mother with her 7 babies. The energy inside my body and mind changed, I could feel the change, I could feel that something was going to happen, but I did not know exactly what. I just waited there looking at them and trying not to disturb. At a certain point I made a step forward, not knowing exactly why. That scared the mother, and she started opening her wings to make the babies move inside the water. It all happened too fast. I made 4 frames, and this will stay forever. My first thought was that there was a meaning for those 3 ‘‘meaningless’’ hours of walking. This photo is one of the most meaningful of my ongoing swans project. I would probably be happy enough if this was the only good photo of the whole trip.”
