WINNERS
Combustions
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PhotographerThéo Schornstein, France
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PrizeSilver Winner in Fine Art/Experimental
The first permanent image is born from prolonged contact: a sensitive surface, light, several hours of exposure. A slow burn. Already, photography was a matter of combustion. Two centuries later, that burn has changed in scale. Light has become excess. Heat, an increasingly present physical fact. What we once called revelation now resembles a consumption of the living, in all its forms, across all territories. In the face of this excess, something resists. This series, Combustions, departs from a paradoxical observation: confronted with too much light, living things draw closer.
