Myanmar, March 2016 Size:30cm x 40cm surrounded by dry stone walls

surrounded by dry stone walls and sweeping hills

JUDGE: It is the storytelling aspect that first attracted me to this image

This study sees a man balefully reflecting on his life

requires a lot of patience

while blurring out the rest

Myanmar, March 2016 Size:30cm x 40cm surrounded by dry stone wallsIn 2016, Guardian photographer David Levene and architecture critic Oliver Wainwright visited Yangon to document its changing face, amid huge political changes and a flood of foreign investment. Its crumbling British colonial architecture and street life, in particular, provided a rich source of stories and images. Here, a young man sells fruit at a roadside stall beneath a rudimentary striplight (Wainwright is pictured just beyond him, wearing a blue