/ 2025 / Portraiture / Personality

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Conny Conrad, Germany

When I entered the room and saw the picture on the wall, I knew what the image should look like, it tells a story.
The central motif is the contrast between physical presence (a woman) and spiritual ideal (Jesus in the image). It raises questions about morality, appearance vs. reality, or simply the aesthetics of opposites.
Everything seems staged—nothing is random. The space, the posture, the gaze, the painting. It could be a statement about femininity, self-image, or modern iconography.
The image is a mixture of of aesthetic staging, symbolic charge, and subtle provocation.