/ 2025 / Fine Art / Still Life

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Gloria Pereyra, United States
• Website
  http://gloriapereyra.com

MEMORIES

Lurking in the shadows of the past,
Joy, terror, anguish, mercy, tenderness
All recorded in the history book of remembrance,
Keepsakes for the antiquities of time.
Diaries of cherished reflections
That dance as a thistle seed on a gentle breeze
And fade with the elegance of a petal on an aged stem.
Delicate yet potent, ripples of pain and pleasure,
Sometimes indistinct, sometimes crisp.
But always...echoes.
Perhaps memories do not wither with the passage of time
And, just as the splendor of a bloom,
Their vigor yields only to flourish
In an enduring state of grace.

Gloria Pereyra

Gloria Pereyra grew up in San Francisco and presently lives in the Rocky Mountains. She earned her BFA in Colorado from the University of Denver.

Awards Gloria Pereyra's has been honored by the Pollux Awards, Prix de la Photographie Paris, International Photography Awards,- The Lucie Awards, International Fine Art Photography Competition: Prix de la Decouverte, Photography Masters Cup, Best of Photography, the Black and White Spider Awards (2012 through 2019) and the 2019 Julia Margaret Cameron Awards. Her photographs have been published in "Shadow and Light Magazine and have been shown frequently at the Eleanor Bliss Center for the Arts. Her prints are held in several private collections.