/ 2025 / Press / Performing Arts

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Ding Chaing Lin, Taiwan
• Date of Photograph
  2025/5/31
• Instagram
  https://www.instagram.com/ding__photo/

In the final moments before her graduation recital, the room holds its breath.

She stands somewhere in between — between silence and song, between who she is and who she’s about to become. Around her, quiet hands move with care: adjusting the dress, perfecting the makeup, steadying the nerves.

Everything is in motion, except her.