/ 2025 / Fine Art / Other

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Kseniia Antipina, Germany
• Website
  https://germenevtika-art.com/
• Instagram
  https://www.instagram.com/germenevtika/

Surreal photographic scenes unfold through meticulously crafted settings. Each image is built around a fictional scenario and features a character searching for a place of belonging. Emotions are conveyed not through facial expression, but through posture and surrounding objects. Faces are often hidden to evoke a universal inner world. Created with a large format digital camera and without artificial intelligence or computer graphics, the artworks rely on rich color correction. Reality and fantasy merge into symbolic, emotionally charged visual narratives.

Kseniia Antipina (1992) is a Berlin-based artist working with staged photography. Growing up in a remote town, she discovered art later in life while studying history in Kazan, where she also trained in painting and graphic design. Moving to Berlin in 2017, photography became her main focus. Since 2021, she has exhibited internationally. In 2023, she won the Julia Margaret Cameron Award and FotoNostrum Book Award; in 2024, she received the Gold Award at the World Masters of Photography in Vienna.

Awards 2025

Aesthetica Art Prize 2025, longlist
York, The United Kingdom

Fine Art Photography Awards, nominee
London, The United Kingdom

2024

World Masters of Photography WMPO, Gold Award (in category "Contemporary")
Vienna, Austria

World Photo Annual Refocus-Awards in the category “Fine Art” and category “Conceptual”, nominee
New York, USA

Viepa Photo Award in the category "Free Subject Photography”, honorable mention
Vienna, Austria

Global Photography Awards, Gold Winner (in category "Fine Art - Contemporary")
New York, USA

2023

Imacres Awards, honorable mention in the category “Fine Art Photography”, Poland

ArtJobs.com “Artist of the month - September”

The Image Flow, honorable mention "Photo of the month - Portrait”
San Anselmo, USA

BBA One Shot Award, nominee
Berlin, Germany

21st Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers, overall winner
Barcelona, Spain

2021

Reclaim Award, finalist
Cologne, Germany