The winner of the competition will be announced during the anniversary party.
Jena cityscape with birds
Katrin Schilling
Transformation of nature in urban space at a tram stop in the city of Jena. The photo shows the result of the transformation from three-dimensional natural landscape to two-dimensional urban landscape through various demarcation elements that structure the urban space.
A peaceful Ethiopia
Vince Först
This is an invitation. To sit down and lean back. To let your eyes wander over a country full of difference and diversity. It’s ever-changing. And it will always be beautiful.
Celebrating Transformation
Tobias Richter
After a versatile and enriching internship at the SLE a new stage of life began for me, as I started my masters degree at the University of Marburg. Due to the coronavirus the pandemic situation restricted not only the whole city, but the entire world in social interactions, economic and cultural development and also the international cooperation. After this time of restrictions and isolation for many people, the world changed because of the adaptation to the pandemic in many countries, including the return of many personal freedoms. For me the picture contains all of these personal and global transformation in times of, and after the pandemic of the last years. It’s time to celebrate!
Life in Debed
Maria Cassens-Sassen
Debed is a rural village with a population of 945 people, living in the quiet area of northern Armenia, surrounded by wild rivers, historical mountains and agricultural landscapes. At the same time, transformation is not far: Besides the vibrant capital Yerevan just a few hours away, a cultural centre for trainings has been established right on the hill entering the village. In Debed, you do not only experience what feels like a travel in time but also between rural and urban development, just with one peak from the mountain.
McTransformation
Chiara Milani
The current capitalist system favours the emergence of large multinational corporations that do not prioritise human well-being, biodiversity conservation and genuine climate action, but profits. Often, what is marketed as sustainable is only a small change that still works within the one-sided growth thinking framework. Yet flowers last longer than thin cardboard and can take root beyond tiny boxes... Is there hope for real transformation?
T(h)ree G
Simon Meister
Internet has become indispensable to our societies undergoing a digital transformation. Sadly, in this process we have lost interaction with nature and contact with the environment, as we filter all our experiences through screens. We shall seek a sustainable synergy between technology and the environment.oft he picture). Under the impression of climate policy and a negotiated new
social contract, the region needs to transform not only its industrial set-up
but its identity and landscape. The picture shows the former lignite mining
site east of the city of Cottbus that is currently being flooded to become the
largest lake in Brandenburg, the „Ostsee“, with huge touristic potential and
likewise enourmous risks for the water balance that is fragil due to climate
change.
Coal to lake - the dream of the Ostsee in Cottbus
Anita Demuth
Lusatia is traditionally an energy region – until now known for its large-scale soft coal mining sites that fuel huge power plants such as Jänschwalde (in the background oft he picture). Under the impression of climate policy and a negotiated new social contract, the region needs to transform not only its industrial set-up but its identity and landscape. The picture shows the former lignite mining site east of the city of Cottbus that is currently being flooded to become the largest lake in Brandenburg, the „Ostsee“, with huge touristic potential and likewise enourmous risks for the water balance that is fragil due to climate change.
Farmers are able to transform even in the rural remote areas of the poorest country
Ajmal Osmani
The expression of farmers for the first harvesting of his own constructed plastic house with the local materials. It expresses that the farmers are able to transform themselves and produce differently agricultural products with the utilization of local materials even, in a very remote areas of poor country, only motivation is needed.oft he picture). Under the impression of climate policy and a negotiated new
social contract, the region needs to transform not only its industrial set-up
but its identity and landscape. The picture shows the former lignite mining
site east of the city of Cottbus that is currently being flooded to become the
largest lake in Brandenburg, the „Ostsee“, with huge touristic potential and
likewise enourmous risks for the water balance that is fragil due to climate
change.
Kino Karaoke
Shikha Ranjha
The central square of Neumarkt in Dresden is often the host for PEGIDA protests on Monday evenings. The picture is from the summer of 2019, when Dresden city ran Kino-karaoke, an open air sing along film festival on several Monday evenings from 7:00-10:00 p.m.. Was this an attempt to claim back the space, or a strategy for temporary transformation of this public place?
New Batumi
David Pyka
The photo “New Batumi” represents the rapid transformation of a formerly small coastal town in Western Georgia into a tourist resort. The fast-growing city expands into the surrounding rural settlements which get more and more absorbed by the concrete jungle. The photo raises the question what the relationship between urban and rural areas will look like in the future
Urgent need for transformation
Eva Kirmes
A transformation can grow out of an awareness of a harmful situation that, like a withered piece of land, no longer holds hope and perspectives. There is a danger of not taking everyone with us and deepening the furrows in society. Let us level the ground and work on it together for a sustainable coexistence, so that a barren, already abandoned area can bear new fruit.
Startklar
Gregor Maaß
Spontan verwandeln sich junge Menschen vor der Kamera und bilden für diesen kurzen Augenblick eine Gemeinschaft, in der es gelingt als Individuum eigene Wege zu gehen und dennoch füreinander da zu sein. Das Bild steht für die Hoffnung in die junge Generation, die sich startklar für die Veränderungen der Zukunft macht.
Das Bild entstand während eines SLE Auslandprojekts 2005 in Maringué / Mosambik.
Leave Nobody Behind
Bernd Schubert
The older woman is a beneficiary of Zambia's transformative social cash transfer program. Social workers pay her monthly the equivalent of 10 USDollar at a paypoint in a rural school. The program targets households that are extrmely poor and have no self-help capacity.
