/ 2025 / Nature / Wildlife

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Sharon Yang, Canada

At the meeting point of forest and sea, a lone elk steps into the fading veil of dawn. Its presence blurs the boundary between reality and reverie — a moment when time becomes weightless and space dissolves into dream.

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.