/ 2026 / Nature / Earth

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  SONIA FATTORI, Italy
• Date of Photograph
  DECEMBER 2025
• Website
  https://www.soniafattori.it/
• Instagram
  https://www.instagram.com/fattorisony_photographer/

The Folds of the Earth explores the landscape as an archive of deep time. Through photographs of geological formations, stratified rocks, and surfaces shaped by erosion, the project reveals the traces left by millions of years of transformation. Each image invites the viewer to see the Earth not simply as a landscape, but as a living archive of its own history, where every fold, fracture, and layer preserves a memory older than humankind.

Photography has accompanied my way of seeing since childhood and has gradually become the language through which I interpret the world. Through travel and the observation of landscape, I seek images where light, memory and natural forms meet, revealing a deep connection between human presence and nature. My work explores the emotional relationship between territory, time and presence, with particular attention to the silent strength of the natural world and its ability to speak to each of us.