Bronze in Advertising/Beauty / 2026 / Advertising / Beauty

• Prize
  Bronze in Advertising/Beauty
• Photographer
  Masashi Matsuyama, Japan
• Date of Photograph
  20251214

This work explores the fluidity and fragility of the self. By capturing the subject's face through the natural lens of rippling water, the boundaries of identity become blurred and abstract. Surrounded by the vivid intensity of Gloriosa lilies—symbols of passion and pride—the distorted reflection represents the internal struggle between how we are perceived by the world and who we truly are beneath the surface. It is a visual meditation on the beauty found in the instability of the human soul.