Honorable Mention / 2024 / Special / AI Generated Images

Flowers of Memory and Resilience

"Flowers of Memory and Resilience" explores a near future devastated by deforestation, pollution, melting glaciers, wars, and global warming. Through photographic triptychs, the project presents desolate places, couples pretending normalcy in decaying homes, and typical flowers enclosed in terrariums. These symbolize the beauty of nature that survives only through protected microclimates, while humanity continues to live in an illusory normality, becoming sterile in the face of environmental crisis.

Barbara Zanon is an italian photojournalist based in Venice, Getty Images contributor in the News, award wedding photographer, ISPWP/WPJA/AGWPJAmember.

Awards Lens Culture Critic's choice
POYi finalist
Budapest Foto Award
PX3
IPA, Lucie Awards
Center Santa Fe Editor's choice award
Kuala Lampur Portrait Prize
Julia Margaret Cameron Award
Renaissance Photo Award