I kept the curtains open when I slept

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Ang Li, United Kingdom
• Website
  https://www.anglifilm.com
• Instagram
  https://www.instagram.com/leon.nonkiller/

“I Kept the Curtain Open When I Sleep” is a deeply personal fine art photography series taken after my first romantic relationship was over. It explores the invisible entanglements between sex, intimacy, and identity through a queer lens. The black & white film photographs, intentionally grainy and out of focus, function not as documentation but as emotional residue—distorted fragments of memory that evoke disembodiment, longing, and numbness. It is about what remains when everything else quiets down—the ache, the ambiguity, the flickers of self that surface when we allow ourselves to feel.