WINNERS

Elegy For Consort Yu

  • Photographer
    Lei I Chien, Taiwan
  • Prize
    Gold Winner in Fine Art/Still life

Photographed with 810 negative film,print in palladium. Yu Ji, consort of Xiang Yu, ended her life during the fall of Chu and became a symbol of loyalty and tragic love. The Iceland poppy, called “Yu Ji flower” ?Yu Meiren )in Chinese folklore, is said to have grown from her grave, representing her beauty and sorrow. Sold in bud form, it blooms briefly in vivid red before fading — a fleeting, intense presence echoing Yu Ji’s fate: loyal, passionate, sorrowful — a silent scream within a quiet bloom.