WINNERS

Beautiful Memories / Nothing Is Lost

  • Photographer
    Danielle Erthel, Israel
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention

I don't illustrate dreams and memories, I work by the same logic they do. Using a 35mm plastic camera, my analog process mirrors memory itself: unpredictable, non-linear, rich with distortion. Light leaks, soft focus, double exposures collapse the boundary between what was real, remembered, and dreamt. Printed on Awagami Washi, fragile yet resilient, like the mind, the images hold a fleeting moment, a feeling. No digital intervention. There are many truths and also manipulations, all colliding for an instant into one, to a moment that happened and didn't happen and will never return.