WINNERS

Young Land

  • Photographer
    Gleb Simonov, United States
  • Prize
    Nature Best New Talent / Gold Winner in Nature/Landscape

All land is mid-formation — but sometimes it rises above the sea level faster than the erosion smooths it out, resulting in a jagged, uneven landscape, still in a perpetual flux. Settling such a land is similarly a process of constant change, a history of overlaying ecological takeover and shifting technological intrusion. It creates a land that shows both its natural and artificial undecidedness stronger than do other parts of the world: in its rocks, waterways, maintained and abandoned structures. "Young Land" is a series on the natural and social landscape of Iceland.