Gold in Portraiture/Self-Portrait / 2025 / Portraiture / Self-Portrait

• Prize
  Gold in Portraiture/Self-Portrait, 1st Place winner in Portraiture
• Photographer
  Alena Solomonova, Slovenia

The project explores the theme of withering and the desire to preserve youth.
Dried flowers and plants in each photo symbolize the natural process of withering, they reflect not only physical but also emotional aging, the accumulation of experience and internal transformation. The plants are dry and lifeless, but they still have beauty. They are beautiful in their frozen form, but at the same time very fragile.
The blurred surface, covered with different substances, serves as a metaphor for modern attempts to hide the traces of time.