WINNERS

Powidoki. After-Image.

  • Photographer
    Magdalena Wierzbicka, Netherlands
  • Prize
    Gold Winner in Technique/Camera Obscura

Powidoki is a self-portrait of space. Captured through 29 pinhole cameras, it reveals a place not from one view, but from many, simultaneously. The slow exposure invites time to settle. What emerges is not just structure, but atmosphere — the spirit that lives between the walls. Each camera, designed and built by the author, stands along the interior perimeter, its back to the wall, its eye turned inward. Together, they lend their gaze to the building, as if the walls were watching each other. The result is an inverted panorama — a collision of perspectives, a space observing itself.