1. Action/Sports: Stewart Cook 2010
This photo expertly uses focus to blur its background and highlight the monke. By doing this, the photographer is able to capture the intensity and focus found within an actual sport. Furthermore, the element of contrast highlights the difference between the monke and their surroundings.
2. Landscape: Jill Reilly 2012
Again, an element of contrast is useful in making this photo pop. Both the monkes and the car seem as though they don't belong in the same universe together, let alone the same car. This contrast, as well as the monkes overcoming the car, lends to a social commentary that though our fancy gadgets may be superior to animals, nature will always overcome.
3. Current events/news: Charles Dunman 2016
This photo does an excellent job of making the background appear to effect the foreground. In this scenario, an overreaching human appears to be training our kind to harvest coconuts. However, this representation within the photo allows a viewer to see the oppression of our kind in which our labor is being exploited.
4. Politics: Professor Monkey 2016
This photo effectively conveys a feeling of motion to the audience. By capturing Professor Monkey whilst his lips are pursed it could appear he is speaking to a large group of doctors or politicians.
5. Historical Event: Lisa Lin 2012
This photo is another example of effectively using contrast. However, in this scenario, the contrast comes less from color and more from size. By capturing the monke as much smaller than the objects around him, it becomes apparent that this world is too big for him. It is likely that we can empathize with this monke and wonder what it would be like living in a world where we didn't fit.
6. Day-in-the-Life/Personal: Olivia Ayishah 2013
I really like this photo's use of warm colors. By making the background and foreground of similar warmth the monkes appear to be at home. Furthermore, the warmth amplifies the intensity brought by the screaming monkes.
7. Travel: Emily Grove 2014
The contrast and motion found within in this photo demonstrate how out of place these monkes appear. Furthermore, the monkes are also highlighted due to being in middle of this photo.
8. Fashion/product/brand marketing: Macauley Grace 1959
The monke's vividly colored dress serves to effectively draw the viewer to the subject of the photo. Furthermore, it highlights that anything can wear fancy clothes but not everyone is fancy.
9. Wildlife: Sharla Humbert 2021
The incredible use of focus in this photo makes it appear the monke is making a leap of faith from a close object to a far one. I also like the portrayal of a small monkey navigating a large landscape.
10. Portrait: Monke 2011
I'm impressed on how this photo displays this monkes funky nature. By slightly tilting his head, he is able to contrast a normal portrait which has almost perfect vertical symmetry with this which does not. Furthermore, his eyes are hauntingly beautiful and draw the viewers attention because they are the only object with that color found within the photo.