/ 2026 / Fine Art / Other

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Christian Böhm, Germany
• Date of Photograph
  July 2020

This image captures a fleeting moment of freedom that exists between childhood and memory.
Taken at Lake Starnberg, a place closely tied to my own youth, it conveys a quiet sense of returning—not to a specific time, but to a feeling.

The leap holds both lightness and longing at once.

Christian Böhm is a photographer based in Obertaufkirchen/Germany. His work focuses on quiet observational portraiture and staged figurative images that explore presence, perception, and the relationship between figure and space.
Rather than narrative storytelling, the photographs emphasize stillness and restrained gesture, often using minimal interiors and natural light.
Presence. His photographs have been submitted to international photography awards and are part of an ongoing body - work centered on human presence and perception.

Awards - 3rd Place, Color Awards 2021 - Children Category
- Bronze Medall Austrian Association of Photography 2023