/ 2026 / Fine Art / Portraiture

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Christian Böhm, Germany
• Date of Photograph
  September 2025

Shortly after sunrise, the light spreads across the water with a quiet, persistent intensity.
Nothing required direction — the moment unfolded on its own.
For a brief instant, the light loses its origin, becoming diffuse and omnipresent — in the water, in the air, within him.
A suspended state between hesitation and emergence.

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