Vanishing Worlds

Photographer

Roberto Pazzi

Category

People Photography - Culture

Company

Submission Group

Professional

Year

2025

Country / Region:

Italy

A photographic journey into the fragile beauty of humanity’s disappearing cultural landscapes. Through images of remote places and intimate moments, the project explores communities whose traditions, rituals, and ways of life are slowly being erased by the advance of globalization and technological change. As modernity expands, ancient languages fall silent, ancestral knowledge fades, and collective memory dissolves into the uniform rhythm of a connected world. The photographs do not seek to idealize the past, but to bear witness to the quiet disappearance of cultural diversity that has shaped human identity for millennia. The project invites reflection on what is lost when cultural frontiers fade. Each image stands as a fragment of shared memory, a reminder that the extinction of difference is not only the loss of others’ stories, but the erosion of our own origins.

Credits

Roberto Pazzi
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Professional
2025

Photographer

Gary Ng

Category

Architecture Photography - Exterior

Country / Region:

Hong Kong SAR

Amateur
2025

Photographer

Yuanfeng Mao

Category

Architecture Photography - Cityscapes

Country / Region:

United States

Professional
2025

Photographer

Glenn Goldman

Category

Editorial Photography - Photojournalism

Country / Region:

United States

Amateur
2025

Photographer

João Coelho

Category

Editorial Photography - Documentary

Country / Region:

Portugal