In Photos: The Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest

People

Care – care goes beyond gender. I went to the small slum near to my house in the morning, and I saw that this man was feeding his grandchild while his daughter, the infant’s aunt, held him. It shows me something different than my society. In Bangladeshi society, care work is usually done by a female member of a family
Photograph: Farhana Akther

People

Green – A vendor at a fun fair in the Meadows, Edinburgh
Photograph: Gareth Bragdon

Natural World

Ray of Zeus – On New Year’s Eve in 2016, a sea cliff collapsed near Kalapana on Big Island, Hawaii. A dramatic stream of lava, called a fire hose, started to shoot out of the cliff. Before the sunrise, I captured this dramatic picture, where the lava cascaded into the ocean, creating steam and lava bombs. The lava stream stopped in March 2017
Photograph: Florent Mamelle