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• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Jiasiou Wu, Taiwan
• Date of Photograph
  2022.11.21
• Studio
  Jianran Light
• Instagram
  js.w2022

During Taiwan’s rare King Ship ritual, a giant paper vessel is set ablaze—its flames consuming prayers, its smoke rising like offerings. This is not destruction, but transcendence. A farewell that burns through myth, tradition, and faith. The fire speaks not of ending, but of release. In smoke, the boat departs. In belief, it ascends.