In the Grain of Time

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  David King, United Kingdom
• Date of Photograph
  April / May 2025

This series uses photographs of tree rings, digitally fragmented and reassembled, to explore time, memory and transformation. The rings become living archives—records of survival, rupture and renewal—mirroring the human psyche. Layered composites and subtle poetic fragments create abstract meditations on growth through damage. Trees are the source, but the subject is continuity: identity as cyclical, scarred, incomplete and enduring.

Poetic fragments are embedded into the images - excerpts from poems, chosen for their resonance with the image and to create a visual and emotional dialogue.