There is a slight difference to our Galleries section for edition seven.

In the past, work submitted by photographers featured in all of our four galleries.

This time, only three galleries contain submissions.

The fourth gallery for this and future editions will instead be a portfolio recommended to us by one of our partner organizations.

In the first of our submitted galleries, an unusual group appears – punks in Jakarta, Indonesia.

It was the idea of Syamsul Hadi who thought punks generally get a bad press. So he decided to do something about it with his camera.

The result is a series of pictures offering fresh insight into the world of a particular collection of like-minded young men, contrasting the image they like to present to the outside world with, in many cases, their very different home lives.

Violence and protest feature strongly in Tomislav Georgiev’s coverage of two protests by ethnic Albanian nationalists in Kosovo earlier in 2007. In the first, two protestors died.

It is the kind of increasingly dangerous work many photojournalists face these days but Tomislav says he tries to present new angles on the story, not always going for the obvious.

Abir Abdullah also looked for new ways to show what happens when fire breaks out in a crowded city.

His gallery illustrates not only the under-resourced official emergency services tackling a blazing building in Dhaka, Bangladesh but also how ordinary citizens and volunteers struggled to rescue many caught up in the drama.

Finally, color is something used to great effect in this edition’s portfolio by Nicolás Lobo-guerrero Rodríguez from Columbia. He presents a number of unusual views of his country’s capital Bogota.

Like the others photographers here, Nicolás believes that a viewer can be engaged by going for the less-obvious. You can judge for yourself in his portfolio.