The Stories of Hands Challenge – please cast your 2 votes

February 27th, 2022

There were 37 submissions to the Stories of Hands Challenge, inspired by the work of Valerie Jardin. A big thank you to all participants. I hope they had as much pleasure working for this challenge as I have had judging it. The difficulty of the exercize, but also the magic of it, was to build a storytelling image by using only the hands of the subject as well as a small part of their environment.

Let me first remind you to the link to the original work by the reference artist, Valerie Jardin :

https://valeriejardinphotography.com/hands

Now, in order to showcase the quality and the variety of the submissions, I have selected 8 finalists, and even then I have to apologize for not having retained some great contributions, some of them with a large number of Fav’s.

1. Keiffer piping the meringue

2. Stop ! No camera please

3. Friends, family… gone

4. Stabilising hand

5. Busy hands

6. The stories of hands

7. Helping hands from a distant model

8. Hands of a hiker

Since there are more finalists than usual, I let you cast two votes with equal weight. Voting is open until Wednesday March 2nd by midnight in your time zone.

Congratulations and good luck to @stephomy, @sporenmaken, @paulivaska, @30pics4jackiesdiamond, @brigette, @yaorenliu, @grammyn and @ljmanning. The winner will be our host for the next Artist Challenge.

Etienne