Honorable Mention / 2024 / Special / Street Photography

MEDITATOR

I took this spontaneous shot behind the windshield of a running car in a town on the northeastern coast of Mindanao Island in the Philippines.

A Filipino was calmly sitting on the left side, meditating.

The spiral structure seemingly illustrated his thinking process.

Kirby Ma is a passionate Chinese Canadian photographer based in Hong Kong, practicing street photography, portraits, landscape, cityscape, nature, and snaps.

Due to the nature of previous employment engagements, he was stationed in different countries such as Egypt, the Philippines, the USA, Canada, Europe, Japan, Taiwan, etc., and had close encounters and a better understanding of the local culture and people to extensively perform portraits and street photography.

His vision is to share the joy of photography and bring more happiness to the people.

Awards Year 2023
BIFA: 1 Bronze Award and 2 Honorable Mentions;
PX3: 1 Honorable Mention;
IPA: 1 Honorable Mention.