/ 2026 / Fine Art / Minimalism

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  ketoma (Ketevan) Maghularia, Georgia
• Date of Photograph
  2025
• Website
  https://www.ketomaphoto.com/
• Instagram
  https://www.instagram.com/ketoma___/

Arcachon, on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean, is a landscape in constant transition, where sea and land continuously redefine their boundaries.. In the series, this shifting geography becomes a symbolic motif: a living sculpture where stability exists only as an illusion.Here, the sea emerges as a bodily and spatial border. Human presence is reduced almost to disappearance, captured only in fragments. Through subtle visual variations, the viewer senses a quiet but decisive change—where disappearance is not an end, but a state.

KetoMa is a contemporary photographer working across artistic, commercial, and fashion photography. She holds formal education from the New York Institute of Photography NYIP, where she developed a strong technical foundation alongside a concept-driven visual practice.
Her work explores the intersection of narrative, emotion, and visual transformation, focusing on individuality and the poetic potential of the photographic image. Through a refined balance of craftsmanship and artistic experimentation, KetoMa creates images that move beyond documentation toward expressive, painterly composition.

Awards •Photography Festival Photoville, New York (2019)
•"My Favourite Shots" at BBA Gallery, Berlin (2019)
•"Beautiful Imperfections" at Qlick Gallery, Amsterdam (2019)
•TAF Tbilisi Art Fair (2019)
•TAF Tbilisi Art Fair (2024)
•AMB Art Market Budapest (2024)
•World Art Dubai (2024)
•Group Exhibition – Ephemeral Manipulations, Tbilisi.(2024)
•TIFA Tokyo International Foto Award – Honorable Mention, Fine Art (2024)
•Solo crop up exhibition - Tomorrow You Will Disappear, and So Will I. (2026)
•Group exhibition – Paris (2026)
•Hungry eye fair – Rotterdam (2026)
•Hessink's International Art Auction Tbilisi (2026)