Winter Light: Lofoten

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Matty Karp, Israel
• Date of Photograph
  February 2026
• Website
  http://mattykarp.com/

This series explores the unique winter atmosphere of the Lofoten Islands in January. The images focus heavily on the breathtaking daylight landscapes of the archipelago, where snow-dusted beaches, frozen fjords, and towering peaks are bathed in the soft, prolonged colors of the sub-Arctic twilight. The narrative transitions from these quiet, luminous daytime vistas into the dark, frozen expanse of night, captured in a pair of images where the majestic Aurora Borealis dances above the silent mountains.