WINNERS

Suspension

  • Photographer
    Samara Macêdo, Brazil
  • Prize
    Bronze Winner in Nature/Animal

The image emerges from an instant in which the body seems to relinquish movement. The serpent rests upon the branch as a form of latent power. Light travels across its scales, transforming the skin into a territory, while shadow dissolves what cannot be fully grasped. The animal ceases to be a figure and stretches through time as a contained presence, capable of breaking the silence at any moment. The gaze is guided along these thresholds, and the image sustains this suspended time.