/ 2025 / Special / Street Photography

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Naama Zeevi Rivlin, Israel

Twice a year, during the changing seasons — when it’s not too hot and not too cold — a quiet process of making charcoal takes place.
Quiet, because the process involves cutting trees and burning them slowly with lots and lots of smoke, which isn’t exactly friendly to the environment.

For about two months, the charcoal workers live in old wooden trailers and breathe smoke all day and night.
Even a short one-hour visit left us with a strong smell on our clothes — even the camera smelled like smoke.

For the coal miner and his wife, the piles of wood and the endless smoke are simply home for t