WINNERS

Stormy Seascape

  • Photographer
    Nicolo Stortiglione Pudel, South Africa
  • Prize
    Gold Winner in Nature/Sea

Shot on Kodak Tri-X 400 with a Hasselblad 500CM, this black-and-white image captures the Ligurian Sea under a stormy sky. The horizon dissolves into mist as the dark, textured water merges with the heavy clouds above. It's a minimalist seascape that speaks to scale, solitude, and atmosphere—a meditation on the boundary between sea and sky, presence and absence. The image holds a quiet tension, inviting the viewer to sit with the vastness and not look away.