/ 2026 / Nature / Aerial

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Sharon Yang, Canada
• Date of Photograph
  April, 2026

This image traces a boundary between stability and transformation. The rigid, fractured surface meets the surrounding fluid formations in a slow process. The land begins to resemble something living—fracturing, circulating, adapting—and gradually softens the boundary between the inert and the living.

Sharon Yang is an interdisciplinary storyteller working across photography, music, and visual narrative.
With an academic background in musicology and ethnographic documentary filmmaking, her work explores the poetics of time, memory, and landscape. She works between East Asia and North America, primarily based in Canada. As an emerging visual artist, she is currently developing her long-form photographic series.