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Kadallah Burrowes is one of the Honorable Mention winners of the Radii Photo Contest. The photo, above, was taken at the Phoenix Commune in Beijing, amid a three-month farming and seven-province couchsurfing trip around China. The judges really liked the scope of the image, the impeccable framing, and the depth of the shot.

Burrowes is an NYU Shanghai senior studying Interactive Media Arts, interested in Narrative Technique and UI Design in Virtual Reality.

You can check out the other winners — and their photos — here.

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Delia Mensitieri is one of the Honorable Mention winners of the Radii Photo Contest. Her photo, above, was taken in Shanghai. The judges really liked the framing, the surreality of it, and of course the stunning and vibrant colors.

Mensitieri’s had this to say about her process:

Being brought up in two worlds and two cultures (Belgian-Italian roots) I have always admired and been inspired by contrasts. With my camera I try to capture details, interesting color combinations or just in general small contrasts in everyday life. I use my long walks through the city as inspiration. Always with my camera, I look for these small subtle details that make the world just that little more interesting.

Photographer’s bio:

Delia Mensitieri (24) was brought up in an Italian-Belgian family. Since her childhood, she has tried to show the world how she perceives reality. Poetry, music, drawings and photography have been ways to express her deep fascination with details and how they can make an ordinary object into something unique, surreal and just beautiful on its own.

You can check out the other winners — and their photos — here.

Justin Scholar is the winner of the Radii Photo Contest, which you already know. One judge called his winning picture (above) “timeless… an extraordinary image.”

But we were equally impressed with his two other submissions, which we’d like to highlight here (you’ll want to click to enlarge):

Scholar had this to say about his work:

In many ways, China was the first place I considered myself an artist.

Cheesy, I know, but in New York, I was a technician. I was a hired hand as the VFX supervisor on many many films, but never had the time nor need to make my own content. I was encouraged to travel to a new country and explore traditional art forms, and China seemed like the natural choice.

I spent 90% of my time at school in Shanghai, practicing calligraphy, guzheng and various studio art forms. I did get the chance to visit one other place: Hangzhou, for two days. I felt drawn to it after writing intensely on the Legend of the White Snake, because the West Lake & the Golden Pagoda were there. I wanted to walk along the lake, just as Xu Xian and Lady Bai had.

So I did.

It was a hazy, cloudy morning in Hangzhou. The boatsmen were out, but the tourists were not. It was perfect. The fog removed contrast from the landscape, making the West Lake look like a muted 水墨 Chinese watercolor painting. My friends and I walked speechlessly along the lake, astounded by how peaceful it was.

I remember the moment clearly, after taking this photo and thinking, for the first time, I had created a viable work of art. This photo was a discovery, both of an ancient history and of myself as an artist.

Simply excellent.

Photographer’s bio:

Justin Scholar is an American Visual Content Producer & Multi-Instrumentalist. Based in NYC, Justin has produced commercial content for Coca-Cola, NYU, Gibson Guitar and more. He frequently collaborates with Chinese classical & contemporary artists and is preparing for his November return to Shanghai. He also plays 20 instruments.

You can check out the other winners — and their photos — here.

The above is the First Prize winner of the inaugural Radii Photo Contest. As photographer ilkka Jarvilaturi explains:

Taken on an undeveloped beach west of Sanya where he, together with his two friends, had struck camp to escape his wife and the inland life. High on booze and betel, he would sell the big catch to the many seafood restaurants in the nearby resorts, or grill the small catch on the campfire for an al fresco dinner. There before dinner time, I was only offered a shot of baijiu and betel, the latter of which I turned down.

Photographer bio:

ilkka 伊卡 is director, screenwriter and photographer, last few years mostly writing screenplays for the China market and shooting the occasional TVC. He circled all of Hainan location scouting for a film where young lovers have eloped and ended up on a beach. The movie is still looking for backers, but the moment captured with the fisherman makes up for some of the effort. More of ilkka’s work can be seen in the fall at “Orwell is Departing,” opening at Café Zarah in Beijing on September 21.

You can check out the other winners — and their photos — here.