/ 2026 / Fine Art / Abstract

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Bolko Stolberg, United States
• Date of Photograph
  2025

Residual Forms explores trees as enduring records of change. Reduced to black silhouettes against white space, the photographs reveal only branch, trunk, fracture, and void. Shaped by fire, drought, wind, and time, the trees become quiet metaphors for resilience and transformation. Stripped to their essential forms, they blur the boundary between photography and drawing, inviting reflection on adaptation, endurance, and the marks left by experience. The series suggests that resilience is not a return to what once was, but a continual process of becoming.