WINNERS

Lazy Afternoon In Kirtipur

  • Photographer
    Sonia Costa, Italy
  • Prize
    Bronze Winner in Human/Candid

In a quiet village in the Kathmandu Valley, women worked, children played, and grain dried in the sun. And then, there she was, at the center of it all, discreet and radiant. With coconut oil in hand, she nourished her bare skin, her graceful back and harmonious neck exuding a quiet sensuality. A single veil hinted at modesty, but it was her graying hair, gathered in an elegant chignon, that revealed her age. She stood there, offering her body to the sun with serene, effortless sensuality.