/ 2025 / Nature / Sunrise / Sunset

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Sharon Yang, Canada
• Date of Photograph
  July.15th, 2025

As the sun retreats and shadows stretch, the elk return to the forest and walk into the last light of the day. They evoke the final note of a natural symphony — the fading warmth of the ocean air kissing their backs as the land exhales into night.

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.