/ 2025 / Portraiture / Family

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Lennard Grohn, Germany
• Date of Photograph
  3rd of July 2023
• Website
  https://www.lennardgrohn.com
• Instagram
  https://www.instagram.com/lennardgrohn/

Since childhood I have a special soul connection with my beloved grandfather.
He taught me that you need humor in life and should not only "function" in society like a machine. As a teenager, he let me drive his Volvo on the campsite and taught me how to drive. When there were problems at school, with my parents, he was there for me like a friend. This made me ask him for a promise in my youth: Namely, that he would live to be 100 years old! In July 2023 he had reached 103 years of life and I decided to make a portrait of him, to honor him and record it for eternity. He died in September 2023.

Lennard Grohn is a German photographic artist based in Frankfurt am Main.

He studied photography at the University of Fine Arts in Mainz, where his approach to light, drawing and composition was shaped. Working primarily in black and white, he develops long-term series that explore memory, intimacy and quiet transformation through a reduced, minimalist visual language.
His work moves between presence and absence, silence and emotional intensity, ranging from intimate portraits to poetic landscapes.

Awards reFocus Awards (Black & White Contest) 2025
Category “Professional – Portrait” – 1st Place / GOLD

ND AWARDS 2024
Category “Professional – People – Portrait” – 1st Place / GOLD Star Award