These Photographs Show What Fun Looks Like: 'Fun 2020' Competition (50 Pics)

Location: Moc Chau, Vietnam

"On the occasion of the Tet national holiday, the Mong children wear traditional clothes and visit all the houses of the village."

@nguyenvuphuoc (Vietnam)

Location: Kushtia, Bangladesh

"The boy in this picture comes from a poor family, they can hardly afford toys in their situation. But the kid was very happy with the tire his father had brought home from work. I didn't ask him to smile, we were just playing hide and seek behind this tire and he was laughing the whole time."

@sujonadhikary (Bangladesh)

Location: Avondale, Lusaka, Zambia

"October is summertime on this side of the world. And on this particular day, it was blistering hot. I was washing my car with my son in the afternoon, and I guess he decided to take advantage and make the most of all that water and cool off. The water supply in our area is very erratic, so when we do get water we are very mindful of how we use it. But on this particular day, I decided to forget all of that and let the boy have fun with all that water. My son showed me that he was happy, truly happy with what he had. The expression on his face was pure joy and happiness."

@bonkoti (Zambia)

Location: Canning, West Bengal, India

"After a long hot summer, everyone was waiting for the relief of the monsoon and its heavy rain. The rural kids were celebrating in a unique, entertaining way."

@pranab_basak (India)

Location: Mingun, Myanmar

@sakter (Bangladesh)

Location: Mui Ne, Vietnam

"A group of children laughs as they play with old motorcycle tires in a sand dune of Mui Ne, a coastal fishing town that is one of the most famous travel destinations in Vietnam. Every day, many children come to the dunes to play and work with their parents. Children offer sand slides for hire and sell squeezed coconut, mothers sell powdered flour while the fathers drive the motorbike taxi. Children here are poor, they are not familiar with modern electronic devices like the children in the city. They work hard but they're always happy, and their joy comes even with simple games. I plan to spend all the prize money to support the Vietnamese COVID-19 fund."

@trantuanviet (Vietnam), #Fun2020 Hero

Location: Barcelona, Spain

"The 3 kids in the photo are triplets, and I've known them since they were in the belly of their mother! Here, the triplets are in a bakery just in front of the oven where their grandfather worked for more than 30 years. The photos of this shooting were a present for the grandfather's birthday. It was a lot of fun to build up all the set-up, the lights and decoration, together with the family of the triplets (also cousins, uncle, and aunt) and the staff of the bakery...everybody there knew the grandfather of the kids and they were all very happy and touched to prepare this photoshoot for him to have a memory of 'his oven'."

@suewetjen (Germany)

Location: Tp. Buôn Ma Thuột, Vietnam

"Although he's more than 90 years old, he's still in great shape. I pictured him just before he went to get water in the nearby river."

@tuanngocphoto (Vietnam)

Location: Voronezh, Russia

"My daughter wanted a photo with her favorite pet, but the cheeky hamster kept running away."

@tinozavrus (Russia)

Location: Khedol, Tay Ninh, Vietnam

"The kids took advantage of the harvested fields to create a football pitch. Although the pitch was very hard and watery, they played with such inspiration and passion. Their biggest dream was to score a goal in a proper stadium."

@tuan1368 (Vietnam)

Location: Dandora, Nairobi, Kenya

@spartanphotography254 (Kenya)

Location: Kon Tum, Việt Nam

@thaibana.vn (Vietnam)

Location: St Petersburg (Russia)

"It was the last day of an unusually warm winter in St. Petersburg. It was such a great moment with my two daughters, we loved saying goodbye to winter! Happiness lays in simple little things."

@nayagrig (Russia)

Location: Vietnam

"Can you guess how old is he? Yes, he's 86 years old but he doesn't look old at all, right? That's the power of smiling, the power of having fun because the time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."

@andylam (Vietnam)

Location: Bogor Jawa barat, Indonesia

"I love to see my nephews having fun together! I come back to my hometown once a year to visit my family. This is a kite I brought them from the city, they spent all summer playing around with it in the rice fields."

@erwinsaleh (Indonesia)

Location: Detroit, USA

"It was just incredible to watch that scene in Detroit. Detroit is a city that people call “dangerous”, a city full of negative opinions, and I don’t know why. It’s a place I really loved, and watch that scene of a policewoman playing basketball with that boy was incredible. 10 minutes before that, I was taking portrait pictures of the two policewomen working, and they were just so happy about me asking for their pictures."

@nicoprg (France)

Location: Phaan, Myanmar

"The people from the Kayin tribe live alongside the Thai-Myanmar border. When I got to the top of the mountain, I spotted these two Kayin ladies chatting and having a laugh together. With such a beautiful background, I couldn't help but capture this magic moment."

@naingtunwinbagan (Myanmar)

Location: Aranjuez, Madrid, Spain

"I went to see the San Petersburg ballet perform in Madrid, and took some great photos of the show. The dancer in the picture contacted me as she noticed the pictures of the show I had posted on Instagram. We agreed to collaborate for a photoshoot in an abandoned train station to contrast with her elegance. We shot on the 8th of March, just two days before the state of emergency was declared in Spain, which means these are the last pictures I took outside my home!"

@rafaelgranados (Spain)

Location: Calajoan Minglanilla, Cebu, Philippines

"I wanted to capture the joys of life in the simplest of ways: the happiness of being a kid, forgetting your problems even for a short period of time. There's always so much more that life has to offer. I really wanted to capture a scene where children would jump in the water, but it didn't work out so well. As I was post-processing this image, I noticed the raw emotion of pure happiness expressed by the children as they were jumping in the water."

@jemalmunds (Philippines)

Location: Paranaque City, Philippines

"Nowadays, I seldom see kids playing in a primitive way like this in the photo. It may be simple, but full of social interaction and fun! Or perhaps they are not lucky enough to have fancy gadgets, nice home or food on the table. Whenever I go to this place, most of these young kids are chasing me to take a photograph of them. And for me, I'm lucky enough to capture their genuine smile and happiness."

@renebernal (Philippines)