Bronze in Nature/Aerial / 2025 / Nature / Aerial

• Prize
  Bronze in Nature/Aerial
• Photographer
  Rand Leeb-Du Toit, Australia
• Date of Photograph
  1 and 2 May 2024
• Studio
  Rand Fotografie International
• Website
  http://randfotografie.international
• Instagram
  @randleebdutoit

Carved by time, tide, and wind, Shark Bay is a living canvas where nature etches its fleeting marks upon the land and sea. The series captures this dynamic interplay—salt patterns etched into red earth, sand dunes cascading into turquoise waters, and the swirling hues of crystallisation ponds. From the bold contrast of South Passage’s meeting of elements to the delicate wake of a lone boat, each image reflects the transient beauty of an ancient yet ever-changing landscape. Seen from above, these moments become abstract compositions, revealing the hidden rhythms of a very special place.

Rand Leeb-du Toit is a Sydney-based internationally awarded fine-art photographer and visual novelist working at the intersection of portraiture and constructed narrative. The Encoded, a ten-portrait body of work translating Australia's critically endangered species onto human faces through hours-long handmade makeup, photographed on Leica and printed on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta, is the visual heart of a larger four-book literary universe completed in 2026. His practice insists on the handmade image in the age of the synthetic one: no generative tools are used at any stage of the work.

Awards His work has been recognised through the Prix de la Photographie Paris, The Landscape Awards and the Mono Awards and been featured in Galah Magazine. He published his first photobook, Days to Live: An Aerial Perspective in 2025.