WINNERS

The Silent Diary

  • Photographer
    Xenia Chetrar, United Kingdom
  • Prize
    Gold Winner in Life Style/Other

To me, film photography is a meditative process. My work serves as a silent diary, exploring the delicate intersection of memory, identity, and the ephemeral nature of existence. By using techniques like double exposure and the cyanotype process, I embrace the unpredictability of analog to evoke a sense of nostalgia. Film allows me to convey a timeless intimacy often absent in the digital medium. My subjects, frequently enveloped in layers of light and shadow, become part of an ever-evolving visual narrative, suspended between the present and the past, the real and the imagined.