Threads Discovery Project | find new pieces: “portrait orientation” | Encountering Emerging Talent | Focus #718

“find new pieces” is a discovery project that uncovers outstanding works from among the countless creations posted on Threads and shares their appeal through our magazine. Each edition presents a theme and gathers works from around the world, creating opportunities to encounter emerging talent—new pieces yet to be discovered.

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This time, we feature ten works selected from the countless submissions received from around the world.
Join us as we explore these remarkable works, each animated by a distinctive perspective and sensibility.

A portrait-oriented frame guides the eye along a direct path.
A standing figure, a lengthening shadow, a building reaching toward the sky, or traces of everyday life held in the palm of a hand.
Within it lie negative space and depth that a horizontal frame cannot fully contain.

From top to bottom, or from foreground to background.
The rhythm flowing through the frame quietly brings the subject’s presence into sharper relief.

What will you place at the center, and what kind of negative space will you preserve?
What story is captured within the “vertical world” chosen by your gaze?

Show us the expansive perspective that can emerge within a single work precisely because it is composed in “portrait orientation.”

Black_GR

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cizucu Editorial Team
The figure of a cat surrendering itself to the soft light is rendered all the more striking by the portrait composition. The graceful line of its outstretched body creates a pleasing rhythm across the frame, while even the shadow cast on the floor is seamlessly integrated into the work’s visual expression. Defenseless charm and a quiet presence coexist, imbuing an otherwise ordinary moment with a rich sense of narrative.

Xun

💙 02

cizucu Editorial Team
This work succinctly demonstrates the expressive potential of portrait orientation through an upward-looking viewpoint directed toward the light entering from the skylight. The concentric rings and the straight line of the elevator rising through the center resonate with one another, naturally drawing the eye upward. The deep shadow occupying the lower part of the frame further accentuates the height of the space, generating a quiet tension and exhilaration within the austere architecture. A single point of light determines the rhythm of the entire composition, while structure and depth offer a powerful response to the theme of “portrait orientation.”

Sylvie

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cizucu Editorial Team
Trails of light and the colors of flowers overlap within the portrait frame, capturing even the festive atmosphere passing before the viewer’s eyes. By deliberately incorporating motion and instability, the work reaches beyond the physical contours of its subjects to evoke heat, commotion, and a quickening pulse. The rhythm of light cascading from top to bottom gives the composition depth and momentum, preserving both the brilliance of the moment and the afterimage of memory. The visual experience, suspended between abstraction and figuration, is deeply satisfying and invites repeated viewing.

SenShaShin

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cizucu Editorial Team
By incorporating an expansive, crystalline blue sky and a single cable descending straight through it, the composition simultaneously creates the tension and openness unique to portrait-format photography. The scaffolding positioned at the bottom of the frame, together with the tiny figure walking across it, heightens the sense of scale and transforms an everyday construction site into an unexpectedly poetic scene. The red hook at the center anchors the gaze, lending strength to a work otherwise defined by stillness.

kazifmak

💙 05

cizucu Editorial Team
The head-on view of a bridge suffused with evening light vividly accentuates the depth and strength unique to portrait-format photography. The roadway, glowing gold as it catches the light, extends from the bottom toward the top of the frame, turning even the flow of passing traffic into a singular visual rhythm. The vertical lines formed by the monumental bridge supports resonate beautifully with the soft mountains in the distance and the shimmer of the water, quietly bringing together the activity of the city and the poetry of the landscape. The skillful composition directs the gaze straight through the image, making this a richly rewarding work.

cwyeh_film

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cizucu Editorial Team
Within a soft monochromatic tonal range, a profile glimpsed in a passing moment during a meal quietly emerges. The portrait composition creates a natural continuity between the intimate world of the tabletop, the atmosphere of the restaurant extending into the background, and the decorations and menus suspended on the wall, allowing an ordinary moment of daily life to carry a rich narrative. The open space that invites us to imagine what lies beyond the subject’s gaze is equally compelling, resulting in a memorable work in which an innocent expression and the warmth of lived experience gently resonate.

Brian

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cizucu Editorial Team
Set alone amid the repeating lines of a red brick wall, a surveillance camera exerts a commanding presence. The portrait composition emphasizes the pattern extending vertically across the frame, while a quiet tension—the sensation of being watched—emerges within its orderly structure. Although the subject is austere, the interplay of light and shadow gives the image rhythm, producing an expression that is minimalist yet resonant. Within this simple composition, the atmosphere of the city and a narrative of observation are distilled with remarkable clarity.

許婷婷

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cizucu Editorial Team
This work is distinguished by the way its white petals gently emerge from the profound darkness. The portrait composition guides the delicately extending stamens upward, meticulously capturing their ephemeral movement alongside particles of light. Through the bold use of foreground and background blur, the photograph transcends the mere depiction of the flower, evoking the humidity and stillness of the night as well as a beauty that appears for only an instant. A fragility that seems as though it might unravel at the slightest touch quietly resonates with the unmistakable vitality breathing within the darkness, gently awakening the viewer’s senses.

Hwang hyochel

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cizucu Editorial Team
The rhythm of repeating windows and balconies across the high-rise architecture accumulates with precision within the portrait frame, heightening the city’s quiet tension. The austere palette of white and blue further emphasizes the beauty of the ordered structure, allowing an everyday urban scene to be appreciated as an abstract pattern. The surfaces and lines repeat with subtle variations, creating a satisfying visual cadence, while the viewpoint compellingly encapsulates the very sensation of looking upward. Austere yet imbued with a certain poetry, this is a deeply engaging work.

Talha Kuğu

📷 Canon EOS 4000D
💙 10

cizucu Editorial Team
Two birds quietly crossing an expansive, pale pink sky create a striking impression. The generous negative space made possible by the portrait composition emphasizes the smallness of the subjects while conveying the softness of the air and the passage of time. Although constructed from minimal elements, the rhythm of flight and the interval between the birds’ lines of sight are beautifully balanced, imbuing the work with a stillness that seems to gently ease the viewer’s mind.

What did you think?

The works gathered under the theme of “portrait orientation” each drew upon a distinctive sensibility to explore the movement of the gaze and the presence of the subject within a vertical frame. Across this edition’s submissions, we encountered the beauty of lines extending straight through the composition, the stillness created by negative space, and delicate ways of seeing that capture the atmosphere of a fleeting moment. Each photographer’s own “vertical world” came vividly into view.

Discovering emerging talent—new pieces yet to be seen—is precisely the role we hope this project will fulfill. We hope it provides an opportunity for your creative expression to reach and resonate with an even wider audience.

We hope you will look forward to our next theme.
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