WINNERS

Smile, Please

  • Photographer
    Sonia Marin, Italy
  • Prize
    Silver Winner in Human/Intimacy

The physicality of the body is rediscovered in the small gestures of everyday life. Between dream and a sometimes grotesque yet intimate reality, I enclose seven months of stillness due to an injury, a time where an altered perception of things conveyed a different value to simplest gestures. As opposed to the images of a glossy reality, with 'Smile, please' (the story of a constrained space) I tried to rediscover, in what is too often taken for granted, a larger dimension: imaginary yet matter-of-factly realistic.