The 2018 ENR Photo Contest Winners Gallery showcases a collection of the world’s greatest construction photography taken in the past year. The annual contest honors the photographers, without whose efforts this gallery wouldn’t exist and take its place in ENR’s online archive of contest winner galleries that stretches back to 2003. Each photo tells a visual story, and each caption, crafted by our editors after interviewing the photographers to get the back stories, will help readers appreciate the quality of this extraordinary work even more. Please enjoy the 2018 winners gallery of the greatest construction photography in the world!

Hudson Commons, New York City

25

Photographer: Karen Fuchs

Hudson Commons, New York City

Submitted By Colin Sullivan, Cove Property Group

“When shooting construction, besides documenting what is going on…as far as I’m concerned there is beauty in everything if you look for it,” the photographer says. Fuchs got this shot of a tower crane base being erected, using a Nikon D3S, about a year after she’d started monthly visits to the site at Hudson Commons.  This activity involved erection of a tower crane on a roof setback to support construction of an 18-story addition to an 8-story factory built in 1963. “I noticed the Empire State and the triangle almost side by side, and it gave me the idea to place the Empire State exactly inside the triangle of the cables,” she recalls. “It took two more frames…to get the perfect alignment.