We are excited to announce the winners of our recent photo competition! The competition was open to all students enrolled in the Department of Sociology and we received entries from students across a range of our programmes.

Thank you to everyone who submitted an entry. We received a diverse range of entries on the contrast between chaos and order, the beauty discovered within disarray, and the harmony attained through structured arrangements.

First Place: Stephanie Gomes Reis (MSc Inequalities and Social Science & Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity)

Amidst the chaos of the game, order emerges in the unity of football fans. Their passionate support embodies both disorder and order of emotion.

Emirates Stadium, London, game of Arsenal Women against Leicester City Women. Medium: Canon Prima Zoom 60 Shot, Kentmere 400

Second Place: Niharika Talwar (MSc Human Rights)

(Un)civilisation: Clicked through the window of a train, this photograph represents the seemingly ordered and symmetrical façade of the cityscape. Hidden behind these beautiful houses, is the life of real people – the struggle, hardships, crime and poverty that comes with living in the city. 

Third Place: Jack Farrar (MSc Human Rights and Politics)

Occasionally, while photographing queer nightlife, my camera flash doesn’t fire, and the subject eludes capture. I offer these previously discarded ‘failed’ images as I continue to reflect on unsettled tensions as a nightlife photographer navigating queerness, (in)visibility, (dis)order, queer archive, and the queer art of failure.

Submissions were judged anonymously by Faculty and Professional Services Staff from the Department.