CPOY 70 Interpretive Eye
A picture that showcases a photographer’s distinctive perspective on the world. May express beauty, tension, harmony, chaos and other abstract concepts through composition, tonal and color relationships or may be an abstraction or non-traditional photograph. This category is open to images created with the use of software capture filters (such as those utilized by Hipstamatic, CameraBag or Instagram), but not to digital alteration of content through the use of post capture editing software.
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Bronze: Remnants
June 16, 2015
The last rays a setting sun reflects off of the One World Trade Center. 9/11 changed everything for Bangladeshi immigrants in NYC, and America by extension. Once model minorities, we woke up to our homes vandalized, our attires questioned and our religious values threatened. 14 years on, the scars of 9/11 are still fresh, and Muslim Bangladeshis still navigate a precarious path back to normality.
Imrul Islam / Vassar College
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