Bronze / 2024 / Fine Art / Still Life

• Prize
  Bronze in Fine Art/Still Life
• Photographer
  Florian Jayet, France

The Mediterranean basin has seen the birth and perishing of numerous civilizations since antiquity. A rich and abundant culture of which the sea, both guardian and witness, preserves the traces. Our contemporary era is the fruit of this evolution. In the Anthropocene era, however, the Mediterranean is suffering the full impact of human activities. In less than 40 years it has become one of the most polluted maritime areas in the world, with four times more microplastic concentration than the 7th continent.

An accumulation of waste, of artifacts that will question future and distant generation