“Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And good things never die.”, says Andy Dufresne, the protagonist of the cult classic film, The Shawshank Redemption. In a time where turmoil is present almost everywhere, people look for hope to help guide them. These 50 photographs with the hashtag #Hope2019 are an illustration of the power of hope.

Agora images are a free-to-use app social app. The app is for the global photography community, with more than 3.5 million users from across 193 countries. On a weekly basis the app’s users – amateurs and professional photographers – can participate in a photography competition through it.