Bronze in Portraiture/Culture / 2026 / Portraiture / Culture
Mae and Boo in Mae's room
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PrizeBronze in Portraiture/Culture
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PhotographerIgor Emmerich, United Kingdom
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Date of Photograph23 Dec 2025
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StudioIgor Emmerich Ltd
Everything Mae owns is on display.
Her favourite things gather quietly around her: a shrimp tank, plants and insect frames she has made herself. The latest addition is a dead squirrel, a gift from her sister. Boo the cat drifts through the room like a small dog, indifferent to the bones but intensely interested in the taxidermist’s pheasant.
When I ask Mae if she is studying art at university, she shakes her head.
“I’m studying biology,” she says. “For me, nature is art in itself.”