Announcing the launch of the 2020 Daylight Photo Awards!

“The language of love is often spoken through flowers, but the elegant and fabled toadstool speaks louder to me.”

“When I found myself in public spaces, I simultaneously yearned to observe and felt compelled to flee.”

“One isn’t born a winner or loser, but a chooser.”

“The next time you see a request to submit your images at 72 dpi, tell them you don't believe in Santa Claus.”

“ A portrait series which showcases small businesses in Shanghai facing disappearance today due to urban development.”

“These images are abstract impressionistic representations of contemporary life of the cities through Olga’s eyes. Each place in the world has its own spirit, essence and mystery.”

“… a celebration of the phenomenology of winter. It is a celebration of the natural world reaching into the center of the city, and of things that are novel because they are ever changing and brief.”

“The layers of the painted over images convey the gesture and nuance of a city that is both real and imagined, the streaks of colour and memory left by the urban geography.”

“I imagine these worlds, squeezed in my kitchen bowl, as new planets in the vastness of the Universe.”

“… exploring false impressions that can happen in the blink of a shutter.”

“I imagine a future where museums of words are created for people to visit, a place where magazines, newspapers, and printing presses will be on display.”