“Sculpture of Darkness: An Alternate Reality”

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Svitlana Zarytska, Ukraine
• Date of Photograph
  2025
• Instagram
  @svitlanazaritski

Shadows, textures, and silence — this series explores the fragile border between visible and invisible. Forms dissolve into abstraction, inviting the viewer to experience what lies beyond the surface. The work exists between photography and sculpture, where the image becomes a meditative object.

Svitlana Zaritski is a visual artist based in Kyiv, Ukraine. Her practice explores the space between photography, sculpture, and painting, transforming ordinary objects into quiet, meditative forms through light, shadow, and texture.
With an educational background in photography, culture, and architecture, Zaritski brings a multidisciplinary sensitivity to her work. She studied art photography at the Kyiv School of Photography and holds degrees from the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts and the Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture.

Awards Exhibitions
Group:
2026 - “International Tokyo Photo Awards”, Tokyo
2026- "Haute Photographie", Rotterdam, Netherlands
2025 - "New Voices" exhibition, Paris, France
2025 - “Between of World” , National Museum of Taras Shevchenko, Kyiv, Ukraine
2025 - “Hungry Eye Fair”, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2024 - "Nu Art" Galery "100 Contemporary Ukranian Photographers 2.0", 21/11/2024-07/12/2024
2021 - “New Eye” exhibition (10/09/21-25/09/21), Nu Art Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2020 - PHOTO KYIV FAIR 2020, Kyiv, Ukraine
2020 - KYIVPHOTOWEEK 2020 - "World. Diffractus", Kyiv, Ukraine
BOOK:
2024 - presentation of the book «100 Contemporary Ukrainian Photographers» at “Photo Basel”
Events:
2025 - “Sculpture of Darkness", "Form" Awards, Long-list
2024 - "The Victory of Spring", 1st Place in Nature, ND Awards
2024 - "Below zero", Gold winner, TIFA
2024 - "My Favorite Pets", Bronze winner, TIFA
2024 - "The Victory of Spring", Silver winner, BIFA
2024 - "Below zero", Nomination in Nature category, 11 Fine Art Photography awards.
2024 - "The Victory of Spring", 1st Place in Nature, ND Awards
2022 - "Below zero" series professional Silver Winner in Nature/Flowers, TIFA
2022 - "Disco Flowers" series has been awarded in 8th FINE ART Photograhy Award, Nature category
2021 - "Below ZERO" series Silver Winner in Nature/Flowers , TIFA
2021 - "Below ZERO" series silver winner in Nature / Flowers BIFA