Assignment No. 42Open now
People in Their Environment
Wider scenes showing people interacting with and existing within their space
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The brief
What we are looking for this month
- Theme
- People in Their Environment
- Status
- Open
- Deadline
- November 30, 2026
- Reveal
- November 30, 2026
We want to see wider scenes showing people interacting with and existing within their space. Urban or suburban, both work. Use people to punctuate a wider frame, and create an image that balances subject and background. The person shouldn’t fill the frame, and the place shouldn’t swallow them either. Let each tell you something about the other.
- Look for a strong setting first, then wait for someone to walk into it.
- Watch how people use the space: leaning, waiting, crossing, sitting.
- Think about scale, light and layers. Where does the eye land, and where does it go next?
- Step back and give the scene space.
Guest editor
Teresa Freitas
Photographer / Portugal
If photography is my voice then colour is my language
Teresa Freitas (Lisbon, 1990) is a Portuguese photographer and colourist mixing the genres of street, documentary and fine art. Teresa co-founded Lisbon Street Photo Fest and is its Artistic Director, running the programming and education side and helping select work from the open calls. The festival’s second edition wrapped up at Lisbon’s Faculty of Fine Arts just a few weeks ago, so she’s seen a lot of great street work An active seeker and student of colour, she shares this knowledge through online courses and workshops that engage on how colour can be used in street photography. .
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Submit your frame to this assignment
One image per photographer. Submissions are reviewed by Teresa Freitas and the Framelines team, then published in the community gallery.
- Accepted formats
- JPEG · PNG · WEBP
- Max size
- Any — auto-resized
- Closes
- November 30, 2026
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