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Street photography is all about catching moments you can’t really plan. A strange coincidence, an unexpected interaction, a perfect play of light and shadow, or simply a person caught at just the right second can turn an ordinary scene into something worth remembering. As we wait for the final results of the 2026 URBAN Photo Awards, we’re taking a look back at some of the best work from last year’s Street Photography category. The 2025 competition attracted thousands of photographers from around the world, with the selected images offering very different takes on everyday life in the streets. With the 2026 final ranking set to be announced on October 24 at Trieste Photo Days, there’s still plenty to look forward to.They may look adorable, but some of the cutest pets can face serious struggles because of the features people find so lovable. 🐶🐱💔 From flat-faced cats and dogs to Scottish Folds and Munchkin cats, these breeds can experience health problems linked to the physical traits people often consider “cute.” The issue raises an important question about how far we should go when breeding animals for a certain appearance. Behind those big eyes, tiny legs, and unique features are real animals who deserve to be healthy and comfortable, not just adorable. 🐾❤️Long before cats became the undisputed stars of the internet, Henriëtte Ronner-Knip was already documenting their curiosity and elegant beauty. Born in Amsterdam in 1821 into a family of artists, she learned to paint from her father, landscape painter Josephus Augustus Knip, and began exhibiting her work while still a teenager. After marrying Feico Ronner in 1850, she settled in Brussels, where she spent the rest of her life and built a successful career as an animal painter. Cats, however, were not always her main subjects. Ronner-Knip initially painted landscapes, farm animals, and especially dogs, earning considerable recognition for her canine scenes before shifting her attention increasingly toward cats around the 1870s.Shanghai-based photographic artist Ziqian Liu has nearly perfected the careful interplay of composition and reflection, pairing her own body with plants, mirrors, and carefully controlled light to create serene scenes that often feel somewhere between reality and a dream. Liu creates her photographs independently, using a camera and a tripod, with her own figure becoming a recurring element in her compositions. Her images tend toward minimalism, soft colors, and natural light, while flowers, fruit, and ordinary objects are arranged with remarkable precision. At the center of much of Liu’s work is the relationship between people and nature. Rather than treating the natural world as a backdrop, she presents the human body, plants, and other living things as parts of the same interconnected system.Halloween can be downright spooky at times, but it’s still lighthearted enough to be fun and quirky. But the costumes you see your friends buying and making today are a far cry from the nightmare-inducing creations people used to wear in the past. If you’re looking for inspiration on how to scare the bejesus out of your neighbors and local ghouls, ghosts, and demons, then Bored Panda has you covered. Clothing can reveal an extraordinary amount about a person without showing the person at all. A favorite jumper, a carefully chosen jacket, or a slogan T-shirt can hint at taste, status, memories, desires, and even the kind of image someone wants to project. London-based artist Hannah Knox takes that idea literally, painting garments without their wearers and turning familiar pieces of clothing into intimate portraits of the people who might have chosen them. Working primarily in oil on linen, Knox meticulously recreates collars, zips, folds, fur, knits, and other tactile details until the paintings appear almost three-dimensional. Yet these aren't simply exercises in photorealistic technique. Her empty garments become stand-ins for absent bodies, carrying associations with identity, class, fashion, memory, and desire. Drawing on her childhood surrounded by her fashion-designer mother's clothes and her own fascination with fabric, the artist creates what she calls “portraits without people,” paintings in which a single garment can suggest an entire life. What happens when an artist looks at an ordinary autumn leaf and sees an entire little story waiting to happen? 🍂 Berlin-based artist, illustrator, and storyteller Allen Shaw turns fallen autumn leaves into playful watercolor illustrations, using their natural shapes as the starting point for imaginative characters, scenes, and tiny moments. He photographs the leaves first, studies their shapes and compositions, and then adds watercolor drawings to bring each one to life. From dancing figures and musicians to whimsical adventures and unexpected characters, every leaf becomes something completely different. What makes the series even more charming is how naturally the drawings work with the shape of each leaf, making it feel like the artwork was hiding there all along. Allen’s creative approach is a beautiful reminder that inspiration can be found almost anywhere, even in the leaves people normally just walk past. Sometimes autumn really does leave the best ideas lying on the ground. #Art #watercolor #painting #Fall #autumnBips McCallister’s relationship with comics goes all the way back to childhood, when reading his father’s old comic books made him dream of creating his own. In 2012, he finally challenged himself to finish and publish a comic online, regardless of whether he thought it was good enough, a decision that eventually grew into the Hoomph webcomic. The series officially appeared online in 2015, with McCallister describing it as a place where “pretty much anything goes,” from strange observations and pop-culture references to deliberately weird jokes and unexpected visual twists. What began as an unusual street-art project became a deeply moving tribute to the people who lost their lives on September 11, 2001. 🖤 Between 2001 and 2006, the Tape Art crew created the “Hope Project,” a massive guerrilla-style memorial across the walls of New York City. Using nothing but colored tape, they created life-sized portraits of the firefighters and airline passengers who died at the World Trade Center. The portraits transformed an everyday material into something incredibly powerful. Each face represented an individual life, turning the project into more than just an impressive display of street art. It became a way to remember the people behind the numbers and keep their stories visible in the city where the tragedy happened. 🕊️ One particularly striking piece depicts the Twin Towers formed from the faces of 9/11 victims, creating a portrait of the buildings themselves out of the people who were lost. More than two decades later, the project remains a remarkable example of how art can preserve memory, honor lives, and bring a community together through something as simple as tape. 🖤 #Memorial #StreetArt #TapeArt #NewYorkCity #ArtHave you ever wondered what people from classical paintings would look like if they suddenly stepped into our modern world? Ukrainian artist Alexey Kondakov has already answered that question – and the results are both surprising and amusing. Using clever Photoshop edits, Kondakov takes elegant figures from famous classical artworks and places them into everyday contemporary settings. Whether they’re riding public transport, hanging out on the street, or casually blending into modern city life, the contrast between centuries-old paintings and today’s reality creates scenes that feel both surreal and strangely relatable.What if wildlife photography could capture more than the beauty of an animal, and instead reveal a fleeting moment of connection between two living beings? The most powerful photographs can make us pause long enough to see animals not simply as subjects, but as "sentient, emotional, and intelligent beings." It’s this sense of connection that lies at the heart of Swedish fine art photographer Björn Persson’s work, as he captures the character, presence, and emotional world of the animals he encounters. There was once a time when the most we could build was a simple shelter to keep us safe from the elements. But as the centuries passed, we learned new skills, developed better tools, and figured out how to create much more impressive structures. Eventually, architecture became a real art form. With that in mind, we’ve rounded up some beautiful and timeless buildings shared by the page Architecture & Tradition. It’s amazing to think that people designed and constructed places like these from scratch.