/ 2025 / Fine Art / Abstract

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Peinung Hsia, Taiwan
• Date of Photograph
  2016
• Instagram
  brunxxoo

Photographed during the Penghu Ocean Fireworks Festival in Taiwan, this series captures the biological quality of the moment fireworks bursts into light.

Rather than documenting the event as one-time spectacle, I wanted to offer a new perspective of seeing fireworks. When photography turns the fleeting into the eternal, it creates a space where the inorganic become lifeforms.

Shot on 35mm film, the unpredictability of analog film giving each image a raw, dreamlike intimacy.