{"id":51269,"date":"2025-04-26T05:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T05:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/51269\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T05:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T05:00:13","slug":"the-pure-street-photography-competition-spotlights-humor-and-chance-amid-the-ordinary-colossal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/51269\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pure Street Photography Competition Spotlights Humor and Chance Amid the Ordinary \u2014 Colossal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Founded in 2020, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purestreetphotography.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pure Street Photography<\/a> celebrates a diverse array of captivating sights and image-makers around the globe. Coincidental timing, uncanny interactions, and moments that are stranger-than-fiction figure prominently in the platforms\u2019s curation.<\/p>\n<p>To support their community, founders Dimpy Bhalotia and Kamal Kumaar Rao launched a grant competition earlier this year, with winners announced this week. Topping the contest is Ayanava Sil\u2019s \u201cCrown of Fire,\u201d which captures the instantaneous chaos during a Diwali celebration as a child dashes with sparkling streaks trailing behind. \u201cIt\u2019s a flash of magic caught in time, where light, joy, and imagination come together in one unforgettable frame,\u201d Sil says.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/psp-8-960x640.jpg\" alt=\"a kid running with sparklers appearing to stream from his head\" class=\"wp-image-454009\"  \/>Ayanava Sil (India), \u201cCrown of Fire\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other finalists include Amy Horowitz\u2019s bizarre photo of an older woman clutching her bag while an enormous snake slithers up to the window where she\u2019s seated. Joanna M. similarly builds curiosity tinged with the absurd as she photographs a proud beagle posing for paparazzi.<\/p>\n<p>See more of the contest\u2019s winners below, and follow Pure Street Photography\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pure.street.photography\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instagram<\/a>, a trove of visual wit and chance encounters.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/psp-3-960x640.jpg\" alt=\"a woman sitting with her back to the camera on the right side of the bench, while two feet dangle over the left side\" class=\"wp-image-454004\"  \/>Anna Marzia Soria (Italy), \u201cOptical Illusion\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/psp-4-960x641.jpg\" alt=\"people surround a dog sitting on a velvet blue sofa at a table to take its photo\" class=\"wp-image-454005\"  \/>Joanna M. (United States), \u201cCelebrity\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/psp-1-960x641.jpg\" alt=\"a person appears like a walking shadow\" class=\"wp-image-454002\"  \/>Holger Kunze (Belgium), \u201cThe Double\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/psp-5-960x640.jpg\" alt=\"a kid in the grass with his legs up is surrounded by dozens of figurative shadows\" class=\"wp-image-454006\"  \/>Valeria Ciardulli (Italy), \u201cSpectators\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/psp-7-960x640.jpeg\" alt=\"a cat walks through a hole in a drawn deity on a wall\" class=\"wp-image-454008\"  \/>Julachart Pleansanit (Thailand), \u201cRahu\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/psp-2-960x640.jpg\" alt=\"a black and white image of a child swinging with her shadow seeming to swing on the ground below\" class=\"wp-image-454003\"  \/>Mary Crnkovic Pilas (Croatia), \u201cSweet Bird of Youth\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do stories and artists like this matter to you?<\/strong> Become a <a href=\"https:\/\/colossal.local\/members\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"118516\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colossal Member<\/a> now, and support independent arts publishing.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Hide advertising<\/li>\n<li>Save your favorite articles<\/li>\n<li>Get 15% off in the <a href=\"https:\/\/colossal.shop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colossal Shop<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Receive members-only newsletter<\/li>\n<li>Give 1% for art supplies in K-12 classrooms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Founded in 2020, Pure Street Photography celebrates a diverse array of captivating sights and image-makers around the globe.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3939],"tags":[4021,4020,27482,4022,77,27483,27484,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-51269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-contests","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-humor","14":"tag-street-photography","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114402507198757112","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}