/ 2025 / Portraiture / Other

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Qijia Li, China
• Date of Photograph
  3/24/2023
• Studio
  Comma Production

My work explores the tension between reality and imagination through staged photography. Drawing from my background in cinematography, I construct cinematic scenes that blend the familiar with the surreal. Inspired by film, theater, and literature, I use light, color, and texture to evoke emotion and ambiguity. Each image invites viewers to linger in a carefully crafted world, where authenticity and artifice coexist, and storytelling becomes a question of perception.