/ 2026 / Portraiture / Children

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Christian Böhm, Germany
• Date of Photograph
  November 2025 - April 2026

Studies in Presence explores quiet states of perception through staged figurative portraits. Removed from specific narrative or temporal context, the images focus on posture, gaze, gesture, and the relationship between subject and surrounding space.
Minimal interiors, softlight, and restrained compositions create moments of stillness in which presence itself becomes the central subject. Rather than describing events, the photographs invite sustained attention and contemplative viewing.

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