WINNERS

Instants

  • Photographer
    Natalia Rudychev, United States
  • Prize
    Silver Winner in Zines And Photo Book/Travel

Instants is a handmade artist book featuring unique Polaroid Go prints, documenting a love that defies simple definition. Each miniature frame captures the fleeting, tactile nature of a connection as beautiful as it is intricate. Embracing the chemical imperfections of the medium, these images map a poetic path of tension and release. Through this sequence, I explore the duality of intimacy—the comfort of presence and the ache of distance. These snapshots invite you to observe the messy, non-linear progression of a bond that is rarely direct, often circular, and endlessly revealing.