Fog

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Shahriar Mazandi, United Kingdom
• Date of Photograph
  November 2025 - April 2026
• Studio
  Shahriar Mazandi

From a series of images taken at different times of day in fog in local woods. In attempting to capture an other-worldly, ethereal landscape I've tried to reduce the images to their most basic elements until some almost resemble abstract expressionist paintings by Barnett Newman or Mark Rothko. Most are directly out of camera.

Accompanying poem by the photographer:

Neither positive, nor negative,
Neither of day, nor night,
Not of darkness, nor the bright,
Not from blackness, nor white,
But a journey to alternate realms.