
Winners of the 2021 Historical Photographer of the Year contest revealed
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This year's Historical Photographer of the Year contest winners come from places as far as Wales, Brazil and Turkey.
(CNN) — "The past is never dead," Nobel Prize winning novelist William Faulkner once wrote. "It's not even past."
That famous quote could apply to many of the winners of this year's Historical Photographer of the Year contest, in which photographers from around the world shared images of the historic sites, landscapes and structures where they live.
Entries were judged on "originality, composition and technical proficiency" as well as the context of the image and the story behind it.

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