Bronze in Analog/Other / 2026 / Analog / Other
Polaroid Kintsugi
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PrizeBronze in Analog/Other
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PhotographerVladimir Borele, Kazakhstan
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Date of Photograph2025
My wife’s body has been shaped by external interventions, mine by self-inflicted scars. Like Polaroid emulsion, skin can crack, tear, and be cut. Transferring the emulsion mirrors the body’s inevitable change. I turn to kintsugi — repairing with gilded lacquer — whose Japanese philosophy embraces imperfection, impermanence, and the beauty of visible repair. This project honors how trauma and destruction shape and transform us.
