/ 2026 / Analog / Fine Art

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Sabrina Vermeulen, Netherlands
• Date of Photograph
  august 2024
• Studio
  I-SEAYOU fotografie

Untamed Spirit explores identity as something fluid and unresolved. Using horses as psychological and symbolic presences, the work reflects the tension between instinct and control, vulnerability and strength, freedom and expectation. Light and darkness become metaphors for the visible and hidden parts of the self — the identities we inhabit, suppress, or project outward. Rather than portraying the horse as an animal, the series approaches it as an extension of human emotion and inner conflict.