Articles Tagged with ''ENR Photo Contest''

ENR’s annual photo contest is a pictorial democracy without the politics. Almost anyone can submit photos taken between October 1, 2024 and November 30, 2025. The cover photo will be chosen by readers in a vote, and all winning images will be published in January.

Snapped high above bridges, cramped inside tunnels and safely away from demolitions, photos force a rapidly changing industry to stand still.

Readers again came out in force to submit their finest photographic work capturing the action, drama, artistry and effort that goes into designing and constructing the built environment.

Bring them on, says ENR Senior Art Director Scott Hilling. Send in submissions now for ENR’s annual photo contest in time for the Nov. 18 deadline, as ENR eagerly anticipates receiving what is likely to be at least 1,000 images depicting scenes from the past year of global construction. Hilling, ENR editors and others look forward each year to reviewing the array of images.

The amazing flood of entries to the ENR annual Year in Construction photo contest was overwhelming—both literally to our online entry system, and emotionally in the drama, scale and artistry that the photos convey.

At a time when an aggressor is bombing cities to rubble, the construction of new buildings is a potent symbol of peace and commerce.

The annual Year in Construction Photo Contest issue marks new beginnings at ENR—it’s traditionally the first print edition as we turn the calendar page. But it also gives editors a chance to offer readers a lookback at the incredible feats the industry has accomplished in the past 12 months.

Whether you consider California to be paradise, dystopia or both, the state is certain to be the beneficiary of the largest share of federal funding from the $1.2-trillion infrastructure act, about $45 billion.

With this year’s 40 photo contest winners appearing here and throughout the magazine, ENR senior art director Scott Hilling curated the images to take the reader through a visual narration of the ups and downs many in the industry experienced in 2021.