23rd Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Travel
Monochrome Streets: Singapore Urban Scene
This photograph captures a quiet urban corner in Singapore, near the Chinatown and HDB housing areas. The black-and-white treatment emphasizes geometry, contrast, and textures, highlighting architectural details, street patterns, and subtle human presence. By framing the scene in monochrome, the image evokes a timeless sense of urban life, allowing viewers to focus on shapes, lines, and compositional rhythm rather than color, and appreciating the interplay between built environment and daily movement.
Photo Detail
| Date Taken: | 01.2025 |
| Date Uploaded: | 11.2025 |
| Photo Location: | Singapore, Singapore |
| Camera: | NIKON Z 30 |
| Copyright: | © Nanncie Zhu |