The Book of Beautiful Things

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Sarah Garland, United Kingdom
• Date of Photograph
  2024 / 2025

These images are part of a photo series which emerged of its own accord during 2024 and continues up to the present time. I have called it ‘The Book of Beautiful Things’ after a blank book I was given as a gift in which to write a story of love. This is an extract from that story, as it turned out… a deeply personal account (visual, not written) of love and loss, of beauty and pain, and all that lies beyond.

I give you my trust
Show me your divinity
To my dying day
Standing in the flame
Faith
Shame
You promised me roses
Dark place
I grieve the beauty