/ 2025 / Fine Art / Landscape

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Thomas de Franzoni, Italy
• Date of Photograph
  01/07/2025
• Instagram
  https://www.instagram.com/thomasdefranzoni/

This photograph was taken in the early hours on the plains of Castelluccio, Italy, as soft fog drifted over the fields. The hay bales, scattered like punctuation marks in the stillness, evoke a sense of quiet balance and rhythm. The image explores the subtle dialogue between light and shadow, form and emptiness. It is a meditation on solitude, silence, and the poetry of the land when the world has not yet fully awakened.

Photography allows me to translate emotions that words often fail to express. Through light, shadow, and simplicity, I create images that invite reflection rather than observation, where nature becomes a quiet language and every photograph is a space to breathe.

My photographs are not destinations. They are passages—moments suspended between darkness and light, solitude and hope, inviting each viewer to complete the journey in their own way.

Awards Category Winner - Minimalism, Golden Shot Awards (2026)
Gold Winner Rank #1 Italy - One Eyeland Black and White Photo Awards (2025)
Great B&W Photographer - 35Awards Black and White Awards (2025)
Photographer of the Year - Architecture, reFocus World Photo Annual (2025)
Photographer of the Year - Minimalism, reFocus World Photo Annual (2024)
Discovery of the Year - Architecture, Exposure One Awards (2024)
Category Winner — Minimalism, Phi Photography Awards (2025)
Category Winner - Minimalism, International Artistic Photography Awards (2025)
1st Place — Fine Art, Monovisions Photography Awards (2025)
1st Place — Fine Art, Nexus Photography Awards (2025)
1st Place — Fine Art Architecture, Phi Photography Awards (2025)
Gold Winner - Fine Art, One Eyeland (2024)