/ 2025 / Fine Art / Other

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Rand Leeb-Du Toit, Australia
• Date of Photograph
  18th January 2025
• Studio
  Rand Fotografie International
• Website
  http://randfotografie.international
• Instagram
  @randleebdutoit

A striking exploration of identity and perception, blending science fiction surrealism with fine art portraiture. The luminous orbs are celestial, enigmatic, and otherworldly. Light and shadow sculpt the forms, evoking a sense of isolation and expansion, as if the subject exists between dimensions. Worlds Within invites viewers to question reality, selfhood, and the infinite landscapes contained within us.

Rand Leeb-du Toit is a Sydney-based internationally awarded fine-art photographer and visual novelist working at the intersection of portraiture and constructed narrative. The Encoded, a ten-portrait body of work translating Australia's critically endangered species onto human faces through hours-long handmade makeup, photographed on Leica and printed on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta, is the visual heart of a larger four-book literary universe completed in 2026. His practice insists on the handmade image in the age of the synthetic one: no generative tools are used at any stage of the work.

Awards His work has been recognised through the Prix de la Photographie Paris, The Landscape Awards and the Mono Awards and been featured in Galah Magazine. He published his first photobook, Days to Live: An Aerial Perspective in 2025.