The Shape of Silence

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Nina Kreuzberg, Russian Federation
• Date of Photograph
  19.12.2025
• Studio
  Nina Kreuzberg

The Shape of Silence explores emotions beyond words. Each of us carries a private silence — our own closed box shaped by memory, loss, and unspoken experience. Love begins when two silences open toward each other, forming a shared box where boundaries soften and presence becomes home.
Sometimes love leaves only memories: light on the skin, the warmth of a touch, the echo of laughter in an empty room.
And then — silence again. The same box, yet no longer the same. Because every encounter forever reshapes the silence we carry.