Honorable Mention / 2024 / Portraiture / Children

• Photographer
  Yi Han & Yaorong Lu, United States

A friend gave me a box of miniature kits when I was pregnant. She knows I love miniatures and said it could be a remedy for baby blue. There’s a time when Oscar got very sick.Those were the darkest days in my life. I was so depressed and could hardly eat. I took the kits out and made a ladder. It is the ladder that Luke stands on in the picture. By making it, my heart healed a little bit. We took this photo when Oscar turned 1. He’s now healthy and happy. He loves watching washer working. So did Luke when he was young. We wanted to memorize this small but cute moment so we created this photo.