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Here Are Our 40 Award-Winning Photos That Show The Art Of Capturing A Family Moment
Family photography can be so many things: Emotional, powerful, funny, impactful, tender, surprising, meaningful... I could go on and on.
Amongst all those things, family photography is art. Art that is captured and composed on the fly—in the briefest of moments—because documentary family photography (which we celebrate at This is Reportage: Family) is totally unstaged. Nothing posed—just totally natural, real moments.
The images you see below are selected award-winning captures from our first two Collections on This is Reportage: Family. For each Collection, we've had over 4000 entries from all over the world, with our judges (themselves world-class photographers) choosing to award just the top few percent.
No poses; nothing staged—This is Reportage: Family.
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#1
Els Korsten (Netherlands)
StinkyMonkey 5 years ago
I keep coming back to this shot, it's the one in the whole series that looks like it's right out of a children's book. The chances of get that perfect picture are so slim!
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#2
Menino Conhece Menina (Portugal)
Maria Roberts 5 years ago
"Father is the noblest title a man can be given" -Robert L. Blackman
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
Don't anybody get it into his head to do that to me today! I'd get a heart attack and die.
#3
Bex Maini (UK)
Autumn Fhoxe 5 years ago
so cute... also the second kid from the top looks like he's shocked at the design on the back of the first kid's shirt.
Elaine Mattingly 5 years ago
Santa Clause, Easter bunny, Tooth Farie, Grand Parents and family reunions.
#4
Sanne De Block (Belgium)
Autumn Fhoxe 5 years ago
when you wake up before them and just watch them sleep. so beaufitul.
#5
Emily Renier (UK)
Bardhi's Dad 5 years ago
Wonderful photo-moment. Looks like some little Houdini makes magic with his childish hands
Faith Nicole 5 years ago
Not a clue what im looking at. I see baby hands and I see clothes on a line drying
#6
Catherine Hudson (France)
Autumn Fhoxe 5 years ago
by far my favorite. so pretty, and the background is blurred just enough but not too much.
Joyce Brazel 5 years ago
THIS REMINDS ME OF MY BROTHER PUSHING ME TO REACH THE LEAVES OF THE TREES.
#7
Rachel Ryan (UK)
Bardhi's Dad 5 years ago
For me, this is nostalgy! I used to do exactly same things in my neighborhood, some 45 years ago. That school's backyard looks almost same today as it was in my childhood
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
"spalka kling i löven" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC7gVBQzwnQ ;-)
#8
Pedro Vilela (Portugal)
#9
Lavinia Nitu (Italy)
Nadine 5 years ago
Makes me hope it was a regular old nap, nothing out of the ordinary.
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Joshua D'hondt (Belgium)
Marcia Cash 5 years ago
My personal Savior is coming back to clean up all the polluted swimming holes.
#11
Susan White (United States)
#12
Adam Riley (UK)
Elizabeth Molloy 5 years ago
Is his Dorset? I remember the wind on the beach in Woolacomb would cut your ankles with sand!
#13
Anna Rowland (UK)
Bardhi's Dad 5 years ago
The title of this picture can easily be "Do she know I love her?", or "How to tell her about my feelings?"
#14
Andrzej Witek (Spain)
Autumn Fhoxe 5 years ago
The way it's a silhouette image captures everything so perfectly. Even the boy's hair is captured in motion!
Elaine Mattingly 5 years ago
These are memory pictures so much better than the old style where people just stare into the camara.
#15
Julia Rose-Greim (Germany)
Diana Dodd 5 years ago
This brought back some awesome (and tearful) memories! Hold on ... they grow up so fast!
#16
Marine Poron (France)
Elaine Mattingly 5 years ago (edited)
She's holding her nose, looks like someone threw her in the water. Scary.
Troy Currie 5 years ago
A lot of people hold their nose to jump in. I wonder if she landed on that rock, because the bubbles go down to it.
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Joao Lourenco (Portugal)
Autumn Fhoxe 5 years ago
So beautiful, I love how all the reflections and perspective makes it so that you appreciate the image without fully understanding it.
#18
Pedro Vilela (Portugal)
#19
Jess Lycoops (Denmark)
#20
Logan Westom (United States)
#21
Joshua D'hondt (Belgium)
#22
Paula Gerein (Canada)
Susann Campbell 5 years ago
Well you just get the pretties table cloth and even get something for each of your family members plus a dog or two and start a movement of running around your yard or the block with capes and of course the mask doing a tune of Superman or whatever hero that you like. I would love to see this movement running across the US. I did this with the kids in our home and once outside in the backyard and the dog got involved so I let the dog have my cape and just watched the fun.
Load More Replies... Elaine Mattingly 5 years ago (edited)
Simple happiness of childhood. Grown ups should try it sometimes.
#23
Rowena Meadows (Australia)
#24
Jena Love (United States)
Autumn Fhoxe 5 years ago
the way she's touching it, not picking it, goes so well with the tones of the picture. hesitation and grace
#25
Marieke Zentjens (Netherlands)
Patty Stier 5 years ago (edited)
Savoring the delightfully delicious aroma of a family day barbecue ... yum! The anticipation is half the fun!
#26
Marisa Martins (Portugal)
#27
Daphne Matthys (Belgium)
Patty Stier 5 years ago
If only we could go back and appreciate the evidence of happy children rather than grumbling about the mess!
#28
Linsey Aandewiel (Netherlands)
Xandra, The Little Hufflepuff 5 years ago
let the children play, Its fun to have water fights in the pool
Load More Replies... Patty Stier 5 years ago
The day is warm, the water is cool and the child is celebrating the appreciation of both!
#29
Raluca Chase (UK)
Elaine Mattingly 5 years ago (edited)
GREAT! Interresting, unique, exciting, intricate play on light. Frame and hang.
Ralu Chase 5 years ago
Thank you! I am planning on framing it soon! It is my fav photograph from our lockdown.
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Louise Van Den Broek (Netherlands)
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago (edited)
He is right where she wants him to be. I spent time alone in a warm shower at the beginning of our son's birth because that is how I wanted it. Some births take many hours so why don't you give him a break. You know zilch and nothing about him, or her, for that matter.
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Jumilicious 5 years ago
Well, at least give him the benefit of the doubt. Maybe she wanted some alone time. Plus, he's right next door and within earshot. Giving birth is such an individual experience. My boyfriend had coffee with the midwife next door at some point while I was in labour and I was absolutely fine with it. I was in some state of deep relaxation and he was there when I needed him :)
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Ana Backhaus (United Arab Emirates)
#33
Erica Hawkins (UK)
Leah Fisher 5 years ago
That's from blowing every last bit of air into the balloon with all his might.
#34
Susan Gibbs (United States)
#35
Lisa Hu Chen (United States)
#36
Alice Chapman (UK)
La Petite Morte 5 years ago
Just because? That's a skateboard ramp. Kid's probably waiting for it to clear or is taking a break. Spent many happy hours doing that.
Load More Replies... Autumn Fhoxe 5 years ago
the calm for a millisecond before the rush of wind in your face. also, this kid has both his feet on the board! does this pic represent hesitation and beginning?
#37
Simona Dietiker (Switzerland)
Elaine Mattingly 5 years ago (edited)
Children know when it's time for a nap. It's automatic no matter what they're doing..
Anja Schmidt 5 years ago
the widespread phenomenon of falling asleep in the car immediately after starting.
Dawn Adams 5 years ago
That's to rest up for the second wind when they get home.
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Katrin Küllenberg (Germany)
#39
Linda Bouritius-Colenbrander (Netherlands)
#40
Liesbeth Parlevliet (Netherlands)
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
'The stadium is packed and jumping up and down at the sight of the new forward making his way through all the players as though they weren't even there and as he prepares to shoot yet another perfect goal everybody is screaming at the top of their lungs'
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Lyone Fein 5 years ago
I think it's a bit odd that the topic is supposed to be family, but so many of them are of solitary children. To me, family implies more than one person.
Kevin Camp 5 years ago
Interesting that so many see these images as melancholy. It's far, far more sad to see kids staring at screens. These kids are engaged in creativity. Having fun in a mundane manner and setting. These kids are actually growing by engaging their minds and bodies.
Anony Mouse 5 years ago
What is meant by "unstaged"? Many of these seem to be professionally posed and photographed. Was someone just coincidentally underwater with a water-proof camera and captured a candid moment?
Judy Dunlevy 5 years ago
Didn't make a difference to me, all were great photos
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Lyone Fein 5 years ago
I think it's a bit odd that the topic is supposed to be family, but so many of them are of solitary children. To me, family implies more than one person.
Kevin Camp 5 years ago
Interesting that so many see these images as melancholy. It's far, far more sad to see kids staring at screens. These kids are engaged in creativity. Having fun in a mundane manner and setting. These kids are actually growing by engaging their minds and bodies.
Anony Mouse 5 years ago
What is meant by "unstaged"? Many of these seem to be professionally posed and photographed. Was someone just coincidentally underwater with a water-proof camera and captured a candid moment?
Judy Dunlevy 5 years ago
Didn't make a difference to me, all were great photos
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