Gold / 2022 / Portraiture / Family

• Prize
  Gold in Portraiture/Family
• Photographer
  Laurentina Miksys , United Kingdom
• Studio
  Laurentina Miksys
• Website
  https://www.laurentinamiksys.uk/
• Instagram
  @Lauren_miksys

In this body of work, I explore spiritual freedom through connection between humankind, nature, and the inner self. These photographs have a sense of lyricism and sentimentality inherent within them. Turning my camera on those closest, my family become a conduit of poetic metaphor, expressing generalised meanings and abstract values.

The portraits by photographer Laurentina Miksys have been described as opulent, timeless, and emotionally expressive. When they have a soul, images allow our sensitivity to engage with the subject and create empathy with what we see. She believes that this sense of contact changes our state of mind. As such, her photography explores different levels of reality: the reality of who or what is described by the image and the reality of experience and feeling - whether the subject’s, the viewer's, or her own. This is what we bring to the image and, once transformed, take take it away with us.

Awards ND AWARDS 2021 FASHION/PORTRAITS (SERIES/PROFESSIONAL) category winner
TIFA (Tokyo International Foto Award) 2021 Silver Winner, Category: People-Children