/ 2025 / Analog / Fine Art

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Dong Sun Lee, Korea, Republic of

Title: Faces (Test Shooting) Artist: Lee Dong-sun
This work is an homage to Francis Bacon’s paintings, and a process of taking out fragments of certain emotions that were locked inside me.
What kept coming to mind while I was taking the photos were suppressed voices, erased faces, and emotional cracks. Like the people Bacon painted, the beings in this photo are also unclear. Faces are blurred, emotions are distorted, and everything spreads into blue tones. That blue is not just a color, but a weight that cannot be expressed in words.
The blue dress spreads out like the remains of emotions, and