/ 2024 / Fine Art / Collage

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Sara Victoria Sandberg, Sweden
• Date of Photograph
  2022-2024
• Website
  https://www.sarasandbergart.com/
• Instagram
  https://www.instagram.com/sarasandbergart/

Friendship of a global kind is a metaphor for friendship without limits. As such, friendship can span across the globe and overcome any distance and differences, be it cultural, social or issues of race. The polar bear and the penguin live on opposite sides of the globe and will never meet, but yet, in this depiction, their distance and differces are overcome.
There is a also a climate theme in my image that hints at the warmer climate that the polar bear is now facing, looking longingly into the snow globe at the snow that has long since melted away in his own world. Some food for thought.

Sara Sandberg creates imaginative photographic collages. Her art is characterized by the interplay between light and shadow. Each object is photographed individually and composited into a finished piece. Animals are recurring elements which give life to the story in the images, often in a playful way. As such, own photography and digital painting are brought together to generate atmospheric scenes that engages and encourages the viewer to his or her own interpretation. No AI is used in the process.

Awards Sara is an internationally renowned photo artist who has been represented at numerous exhibitions both at home and abroad. Accolades and publications have been many in the last few years. Likewise, Saras artwork has stood out in international photographic competitions in categories such as photo manipulation, collage and illustration.

A selection of awards are to be mentioned, such as 1st prize in the Monochrome Awards 2022, bronze in Prix de la Photographie both in 2022 and 2023 and gold, silver and bronze in the Tokyo International Foto Awards 2022. A 1st place award in the prestigious International Photo Awards (IPA) 2023, and category winner in the 21st Julia Margaret Cameron Awards 2023. 2nd placement in the EIZO Artist Award of the Australian Photographic Prize 2022 and a silver placement for several works in 2024. One of the major achievements was being made Swedish Champion in the Swedish Championship of Photography in 2023 and 2024 in the category Digital Illustration.