/ 2024 / Portraiture / Culture

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Joseph Voigts, United States
• Date of Photograph
  December 5, 2023
• Website
  https://www.joevoigts.com/photographer
• Instagram
  https://www.instagram.com/joe.voigts/

A young woman in Bangladesh celebrates Diwali.

Photographing the 80 countries I have visited has helped me instill empathy as a university English teacher in places like Bangladesh, South Korea, Israel, the U.S., Spain, and Morocco. Currently, I teach at a university in China, where I share the portraits and stories of the incredible people and places I have encountered around the world who have changed my life.