Suspended Childhoods

• Prize
  Bronze in Portraiture/Children
• Photographer
  Livia Peres, Switzerland
• Date of Photograph
  2022 -2025
• Instagram
  @livperes

Suspended Childhoods is a visual investigation into the moment when a child’s body begins to negotiate limits. Rather than approaching childhood through innocence or nostalgia, the project focuses on suspension, the brief interval between movement and restraint, play and regulation.
The images observe bodies in states of imbalance, where gesture and posture take precedence over identity. Set within domestic environments, the work follows how limits are learned through proximity and everyday interaction, holding childhood as a condition shaped by physical negotiation and attention.

Awards • 2025 – Winner in Portrait category | Head On Photo Awards | Sydney, Australia
• 2025 – TOP 200 in Critical Mass Photolucida
• 2025 – Finalist in Scenes of Life category | Life Framer | London, UK
• 2025 – Gold Winner in Editorial, Environment and People, Children categories | Budapest Foto
Awards (BIFA)
• 2025 – Silver Winner in People, Culture category | Budapest Foto Awards (BIFA)
• 2025 – 1st Prize in People, Children category | International Photography Awards (IPA)
• 2025 – Finalist in Film, Nature category | International Photography Awards (IPA)
• 2025 – Winner in Daily Life & Culture category | 26th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards
• 2025 – Winner in Children category | 26th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards