Members Challenge Gallery: Black and White

Ana Caroline de Lima is a Brazilian photographer, journalist, anthropologist and National Geographic Explorer. Her work explores the complex connections between people and the environment, focusing on rural and Indigenous communities, environmental justice, social bioeconomy, and the ways the climate crisis is reshaping lives, relationships, and territories.

Ana picked the following images from hundreds of images submitted by members, saying:

"It’s amazing how black and white photography has the power to transcend time. It removes the vividness of colour and invites the imagination, transporting you to a different era, a thought, an emotion. In this selection, the participants brought exactly that: images that make you wonder what comes next. What was the person sitting on the bench on that foggy morning thinking? How loud was the sound of the train and the destination of where it’s going, or feel the awe the photographer experienced witnessing the beauty of nature wrapped in mist around a mountain.

As a judge, I was deeply impressed by the sensitivity and profundity with which the participants explored black and white photography, revealing stories that continue to resonate far beyond the captured moment."