The sky belonged to them

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Raphaël da Silva, France

After seeing an album cover representing a mosaic inside a landscape, I coded some Python scripts to generate my own mosaics. Unlike the recent profusion of AI generated images, the use of homemade scripts allowed me to control all the steps without limiting myself to the first renderings.

For this series, I only foscused on photographs of the sky in which one or more birds were flying. They forced me not to get distracted in the compositions. But, whatever the arrangement chosen, the birds no longer seemed quite in their place. As if their setting no longer really belonged to them.

I have been practicing photography for fifteen years. This hobby carried out by intermittent inspirations took a new turn in 2020, when I started to make my first series.

Awards Experimental nominee at the Fine Art Photography Awards 2025 ("The Sky Belonged to Them").