WINNERS

The Edge of Things

  • Photographer
    Justin Pumfrey, United Kingdom
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention

Made as analogue black-and-white photographs, The Edge of Things follows the shoreline as a place of exposure, survival and temptation. Stones, pools, posts, paths of light and tidal marks appear like signs left between land and water. These are not scenic landscapes, but charged encounters with weather, erosion and absence. Between dark sky and white ground, the coast becomes a psychological threshold: a place where the self is stripped back, drawn outward and made to listen. The work reflects on fragility, endurance and the strange seduction of emptiness..