/ 2025 / Fine Art / Other

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Lala Wu, Taiwan

I’ve always been interested in how we look at animals and what we’re actually seeing.
I chose black and white to take away the emotional cues that color can create.
The focus is on the nose instead of the eyes, but most people still look at the eyes first.
It made me think that maybe sharpness isn’t always the most important thing.
Sometimes, the feeling matters more.
This image is part of a project called Under the Skin of the Other, which explores how we project emotions onto non-human lives and often think we understand them, when maybe we’re just trying to understand ourselves.