/ 2025 / Portraiture / Family

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Justyna Nascimento, United Kingdom
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  justyna.nascimento

I am showing marriage but without showing faces of the couple. Hands can indicate a lot of feelings and traits such as tiredness, creativity, maturity, concerns. From my childhood, I remember my mother's hands, so warm, so carrying, but at the same so tired and hard working. That image stuck in my memory.
My father's hands, hands of an accountants, rested, with no signs of hard labour. I put hands of woman and man together in one photo for comparison. Each person carries different burden.I believe that images of hands create memory.

I like recycled fashion photography to raise awareness of over-consumerism. I love taking portraits and make composites showing connections of simple subjects such as a person and a tree, human skin and flowers. My work involves images taken at low shutter speed, partially in blur, to express nostalgia.