“…This project is part of a larger-scale research project (Vissers & Wagemans, 2021, Vissers & Wagemans, 2023) that centers around photographs of the high-level Life Framer photography competition, celebrating creative photography (https://www.life-framer.com). In particular, we focus on photographs from edition 2017 to 2018, including photographs from a variety of themes (one per month: Civilization, Street Life, World Travelers, The Human Body, An Instant, Colors, After Dark, Urban Life, Youthhood, Faces of Life, and two Open Calls), where each theme has been selected by an expert judge in the contemporary artistic photography scene (e.g., an artistic photographer, a curator, editor, gallery owner, etc.…”