/ 2025 / Nature / Wildlife

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Sharon Yang, Canada

Two elk, silhouetted in the golden breath of evening, stand as mirrored sentinels on the shore. Their symmetry is unspoken choreography, a silent language of wilderness.

Sharon Yang is an interdisciplinary storyteller working across photography, music, and visual narrative.
With an academic background in musicology and ethnographic documentary filmmaking, her work explores the poetics of time, memory, and landscape. She works between East Asia and North America, primarily based in Canada. As an emerging visual artist, she is currently developing her long-form photographic series.