/ 2025 / Portraiture / Children

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Livia Peres, Switzerland

He kept playing while the air thickened. I stayed quiet, watching him framed between trees and smoke. It wasn’t the fire that moved me, it was his stillness inside it. I took the picture without thinking too much. Only later did I realize how often childhood continues, even when the sky shifts.