Bronze in Analog/Other / 2026 / Analog / Other
Ginkgo Leaves
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PrizeBronze in Analog/Other
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PhotographerKyle Hoffmann, Australia
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Date of Photograph17/02/2026
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StudioKyle Hoffmann
Ginkgo Leaves forms part of an ongoing series examining “living fossils” , organisms that predate modern bees yet persist in the present. Unlike stone fossils, which feel distant and abstracted, these forms create an immediate connection to deep time, collapsing temporal distance and situating prehistory within contemporary experience. Here, the leaf functions as both index and symbol, holding in tension fragility and persistence, and reflecting on life’s capacity to endure across vast, incomprehensible timescales.