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Devaraja Market, Mysuru, India

Men transport bananas through the busy mandi of Devaraja Market, part of the daily movement that keeps Mysore’s fruit trade alive.

📸 Photo by Pavan Prasad
Featured on FrstHand: https://t.co/1kBabT6Wpv

#FrstHand #India #Mysuru #MarketLife

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Kyparissia, Greece

A man walks through the central street of Kyparissia, where daily routines continue among layers of history and coastal life.

📸 Photo by Lia Mageira
Featured on FrstHand: https://t.co/gvm0vZ3vJQ

#FrstHand #Greece #StreetPhotography #DocumentaryPhoto

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Yogyakarta, Indonesia

A craftsman creates wayang kulit puppets inside a small workshop, continuing the tradition of Javanese shadow theater by hand.

📸 Photo by Mark Levitin
Featured on FrstHand: https://t.co/FofMmYLtJk

#FrstHand #Indonesia #WayangKulit #CulturalHeritage

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This week's 168Hour CrossLens is open.

May 29 — June 5, 2026. 168 hours to document what is real where you are.

"What does it feel like to be alive in your place, right now?"

Submit via link in bio → https://t.co/ItTRfiSS8L

#DocumentaryPhotography #Photojournalism #FrstHand

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Mysuru, India

Street art near KR Hospital reflects the history, culture, and traditions woven into the streets of Mysore.

📸 Photo by Pavan Prasad
Featured on FrstHand: https://t.co/rBZcUgZlpt

#FrstHand #India #StreetArt #UrbanCulture #VisualStorytelling #DocumentaryPhoto

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Munshiganj, Bangladesh
May 2026

As Eid al-Adha approaches, animals are transported by boat to markets where they will be sold for sacrifice in preparation for the religious festival.

Photo by Rayhan Ahmed.

#Bangladesh #EidAlAdha #Munshiganj #DocumentaryPhotography #Tradition

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The Battle of Nature vs. Progress

What kind of progress is worth keeping and what should repair look like?

Story by froirivera
Featured on FrstHand:https://t.co/FT7CTBaSDL

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Yogyakarta, Indonesia

A man receives a haircut on the street of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Its an ordinary moment unfolding in public space.

📸Photo by Mark Levitin
Featured on FrstHand: https://t.co/H2ISQKsqq1

#FrstHand #DocumentaryPhotography #UrbanStories #EverydayMoments

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Once Upon a Time...

From river, dam, memory, and displacement, Lakes Plastiras and Smokovo were born.

📸 Story by Lia Mageira
Featured on FrstHand: https://t.co/siUIXND5X6

#FrstHand #Greece #LakePlastiras #LandscapeStory #PhotoStory

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📷 FrstHand’s new call for stories, “The Last of It: Fading Traditions,” invites photographers to document the slow vanishings shaping our world.

⏳ Deadline: August 4, 2026

Tell the stories that still deserve to be remembered: https://t.co/DntZncu4nr

#Photography

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Evolutionary Roads

“The space between nature and humanity is constantly changing...”

📸 Story by Sania Gashcheovska
Featured on FrstHand: https://t.co/BdGHlYugqI

#FrstHand #NatureAndHumanity #VisualEssay #LandscapeStories #EditorialPhotography

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"Tucked into a small hillside just north of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States) sits a Fountain Of Youth that has been overtaken by progress but is rich in history."

📸 Story by Britta Manges
Featured on FrstHand: https://t.co/Uiwl0cRuw8

#FrstHand #ForgottenPlaces

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Bekasi, West Java, Indonesia

Can people design nature into a city or does nature always escape the plan?

📸 Story by Slytherclaw Padawan
Featured on https://t.co/H6aMAaEWMT: https://t.co/mylpy2hCkl

#FrstHand #Indonesia #UrbanNature #GreenLiving #EnvironmentalStorytelling

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Hakalau Bay, Old Sugar Mill

“Now, they are rusty with the rot of time, leaning toward a sea that will eventually pull them into the deep.”
📸 Story by Alexandra Buxbaum
Featured on https://t.co/H6aMAaEWMT: https://t.co/jIeG4TU5Fc

#FrstHand #Hawaii #SlowReclaim #PhotoStory

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Featured Photographer: Rayhan Ahmed
Based in: Bangladesh
Focus: Environmental/Social Documentary

Rayhan's work looks directly at the realities many people prefer not to see.

📸 Photos by Rayhan Ahmed published on https://t.co/q6On8rKDpz

#FrstHand #CreatorSpotlight #Bangladesh

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Dhaka / Keraniganj, Bangladesh
Witnessing the Slow Death of a River

📸 Story by Syed Mahabubul Kader
Featured on FrstHand:https://t.co/Wg4GdsZYMU
#FrstHand #RiverStories #Bangladesh #EnvironmentalPhotography #Urbanization

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Loulé, Portugal

“I was growing between my fellow plants, until the people arrived and separated me from them with a white concrete wall.”

📸 Photo by Maciej Lewandowski
Featured by FrstHand

View on FrstHand: https://t.co/pwVGPbPeCF

#FrstHand #PhotoStory #NatureVsCivilisation

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Chandler, USA
August 2025

From soil to market, food moves through quiet systems of labor: harvest, transport, and exchange.

📸 Photo by Sharda Mishra
Published on FrstHand
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#documentaryphotography

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168Hour CrossLens launches on FrstHand.

Not prizes. Not likes.
Licensing.

A global network documenting the world in the same 168 hours every week. If you photograph reality as it is, this is for you.

Tomorrow.

#168HourCrossLens #FrstHand #DocumentaryPhotography

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Pampanga, Philippines
July 2025

📸 Photo by Lloyd Ericson Castro Rodriguez
Featured by FrstHand

Link: https://t.co/9LkMC2LhFC

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#climate #documentaryphotography #realstories