/ 2025 / Fine Art / Landscape

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  KP Madhavan, United States
• Website
  https://www.kpmphotos.com/
• Instagram
  www.instagram.com/kpmimages

Cinematic Solitude is a series of 8 images that trace an emotional arc through untamed landscapes—where silence becomes language and weather becomes metaphor. The story descends into shadow, slowly rebuilds, and emerges into grace.

Each frame holds a threshold moment: a moonrise over stone, storm light brushing coastal cliffs, the sacred hush before dawn.

I do not stand above nature, but within it—transformed by it. This is a visual raga composed in light, shadow, and sacred stillness.

The story is not just mine-it belongs to anyone who has stood at the edge of the known and stepped forward

KP Madhavan is a landscape photographer whose work explores solitude, scale, and atmosphere. Mentored by National Geographic photographer Colby Brown, he blends technical mastery with artistic storytelling, capturing the quiet dialogue between wanderers and the wild. His images evoke the weight of transition and the pull of the unknown—whether under storm-lit skies or the hush of twilight. With a cinematic eye and a relentless pursuit of excellence, he transforms landscapes into emotive narratives, inviting viewers to step into the journey.

Awards Awards & Recognitions
• Juried Selection, PhotoPlace Gallery (Landscape, Middlebury, VT, 2024)
• Speaker, Sierra Club – A Life Less Ordinary: The Art of Nature Photography (New York, NY, 2025)

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibition
• Solitude, SoHo Photo Gallery (New York, NY, 2024)

Juried & Group Exhibitions
• Landscape, PhotoPlace Gallery (Middlebury, VT, 2024, Juried Selection)
• The Last Picture Show, SoHo Photo Gallery (New York, NY, 2024, Group Exhibition)
• In Dreams, For Real, SoHo Photo Gallery (New York, NY, 2024, Group Exhibition)

Publications & Features
• Landscape Photography Magazine (February 2025, Image & Write-Up Feature)
• Landscape Photography Magazine (February 2025, Image & Write-Up Feature)

Additional Achievements
• Mentored by National Geographic Photographer Colby Brown, refining advanced post-processing and field techniques.
• Member of SoHo Photo Gallery, where his work stands out for its cinematic storytelling—blending mood, scale, and introspection in landscape photography.