WINNERS

Modern Vertige

  • Photographer
    Hyungee Kang, France
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention

This analogue photo series explores bodies absorbed in music within club and concert spaces. It captures the moment when an ecstatic party ends: the music stops, lights turn on, and intensity collapses into stillness. What remains is shared exhaustion and longing. Drawing on Bataille’s idea that souffrance and extase are inseparable, the work focuses on the fragile aftermath where pleasure and loss coexist, registering the subtle shift of consciousness between transcendence and return.