EyeEm photography awards shortlist – in pictures
From expansive landscapes to intimate portraits, the top 20 images from each of five categories have been selected by this year’s jury, which includes representatives from World Press Photo, National Geographic, Magnum Photos and more. They will be exhibited at the 2016 EyeEm photography festival in Berlin on 27 August, where the winners will be announced
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In the series Inside Out, Istanbul-based photographer Can Dağarslani blends two people with diverse architectural elements in the search for identityPhotograph: Can Dağarslani @CanDagarslani
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‘The Colourful Man was taken at a colourful Indian wedding. When he walked by me to take a photo with the bride and groom, I instantly noticed his red hair and asked him to stop, and within seconds I took this shot’Photograph: Mohammad Hamza @amirbangs
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‘This photo was taken in Erg Chebbi, Morocco. On the way to desert camp for the night, I sat with a group of friends on a camel. In that moment, the desert looked so vast and secluded apart from this one man running, with no direction, only a million stories waiting to describe this’Photograph: Femi Onipinla @femstagraphy
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A woman sunbathes at the beach in Naples, ItalyPhotograph: Michele Liberti @liber59
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Birds over Inle Lake, MyanmarPhotograph: Khairel Anuar @khairel
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‘My daughter gets her first pony ride in Petaluma, California. High Five is part of a current series I am working on called Let’s Get Acquainted. I imagine this series as a revolving Meter circle that follows me, and the events that unfold every day around me. The ordinary banal stuff, but captured in a dramatic, exciting way’Photograph: Todd Bischoff @ToddBischoff
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Rainbow Punch, taken at Siam Park City, an amusement park in Bangkok, ThailandPhotograph: Jadsada Inaek @JsdJadsada
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‘This photo was taken during a anti-racism rally held in Melbourne, Australia. Members from the far-right activists clashed with an anti-racism group which resulted in police using capsicum spray to separate the clash. In this photo, you can see members from the farright group running away from the police after being capsicum-sprayed’Photograph: Thomas Lim @thomaslim24
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Peb Fort in Mumbai, IndiaPhotograph: Maharshi Patel @maharshi_patel
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Washing windows in Bangkok, ThailandPhotograph: Isara Pittayasiri @freeisara
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‘This is during the Good Friday religious procession in Binangonan Rizal, Philippines. The men are asking for forgiveness, and some devotees self-flagellate as expressions of penance’Photograph: Melvin Anore @melvinanore
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A mirrored building in the Osthafen area of Berlin, GermanyPhotograph: Jörg Fockenberg @jofoc
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‘Taken in Agra, India. A vast majority of acid attack victims are women, with heavy concentration of such attacks occurring in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Shaboo faced an acid attack when she was just one month old, resting on her mother’s lap. The reason is unanswered. The attack killed her mother, and her father was sent to jail. Her brother was adopted by an aunt, who refused to take Shaboo in because of the stigma associated with these victims. Shaboo was adopted by an orphanage ashram in Mumbai, where she received the emotional and financial support to graduate college’Photograph: Zacharie Rabehi @zacharie_r
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‘This was taken on the street in Kyoto, Japan. I am a former newspaper photojournalist now working as head photographer for my alma mater, the University of Colorado Boulder. A camera has been an extra appendage since I was a teenager’Photograph: Glenn Asakawa @GJA29
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‘This was taken on the last day of Moharram, the holy month of mourning, in Lucknow, India. On this day, the youth can be seen displaying their bravado by whipping their bodies with blades, blowing fire and breaking glass rods on their heads’Photograph: Mayank Gautam @Khicchik
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Yunyang LongGang geological park in Chongqing, ChinaPhotograph: Tony Zhang @tonyzhang5
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‘Up In Smoke. This is before sunrise, taken from Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building. A group of us were invited before they opened sunrise season to the public. It was a dream come true. When we got to the observation deck, Dubai was covered with a blanket of fog while the sun was starting to rise. It was breathtaking!’Photograph: Debbie Fortes @debbiefortes
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‘The Riyam Monument in Muscat, Oman photographed at sunset through an opening of the old Portuguese watch tower. I came across the old watch tower almost by mistake while walking along the Muttrah corniche. With the waters of the Gulf of Oman on one side and this monument on the other, it was a majestic sunset’Photograph: Bruno Guerreiro @bguerreiro
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‘On 16 April 2014, the MV Sewol sank off the coast of South Korea. The tragedy claimed 304 lives, including 250 students on a field trip. Kwon Mihwa bursts into tears after taking down her son Oh Youngseok’s funerary portrait from the official altar. Still without answers and justice two years later, parents shaved their heads and held a two-day march in protest, holding their children’s funerary portraits’Photograph: Jun Michael Park @junmichaelpark
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‘This was taken during practice in portraiture class, fighting against the idea of a bad or good face on social media’Photograph: Maximilian Schulz @maximilianschulz
