Body of Light

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Olena Levchenko, Ukraine
• Date of Photograph
  2025

Flowers are not only beautiful — they are alive. In this project, I approached them so closely that
form began to dissolve, revealing what I call the body of light.
These macro abstractions explore softness, translucency, and the intimate tension between
surface and depth. Each petal becomes a breath, a landscape, a wave of color and feeling.
I wasn’t looking to document flowers. I was listening to them. Observing how light travels across
fragility. How shape disappears, but presence remains.
This series is a quiet dialogue between vision and emotion.
A meditation on vulnerability — and its ra