1839 Magazine
Featuring interviews with winning artists and our world-class judges as well as resources and tips from the pros, 1839 Magazine will help you dive deeper into the world of 1839, learn about applying to our contests, and hone your craft.
Kateryna takes an ordinary city scene and, in a single elegant gesture, inverts it to produce something quietly striking through a composition so unexpectedly beautiful it feels less like a photograph than a discovery.
ContinueAnne has performed the alchemy we love most about photography by turning a true artist's eye toward geometric salt ponds, producing images that could pass for abstract paintings.
ContinueValerie's winning image is built on something that cannot be manufactured: years of intimacy and trust between photographer and subject, a choreographer whose vulnerability before the lens made possible an image that went on to represent her work across festival stages worldwide.
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