/ 2025 / Fine Art / Landscape

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Halfdan Hallseth, Norway
• Date of Photograph
  2019
• Studio
  UpNorth Art Society

On the floor of the cooling tower of Reactor 5, this tree grows, symbolizing a Monument for Life. The reactor was under construction and located next to Reactor 4, which exploded in the Chernobyl disaster. Effortlessly, the tree grows through radioactive concrete, serving as evidence of nature's immense forces and selfless beauty.