Honorable Mention / 2022 / Fine Art / Nudes

• Photographer
  Kevin Bacher, United States

To be human is to live in contradiction. We strive for lives that are calm and peaceful; yet the world is filled with chaos and turmoil. Nothing conveys this clash between tumult and vulnerability better than the contrast between the soft curves of a human body and the rough, hard textures of our rocky planet. Yet, paradoxically, even the harshness of nature can, in time, through the action of millions of waves and trillions of grains of sand, smooth out the sharp edges into smooth and polished stone. Nature both threatens and sustains us, and we find balance in the center of the storm.