Silver in Architecture/Aerial / 2026 / Architecture / Aerial

• Prize
  Silver in Architecture/Aerial
• Photographer
  Olesja Brandt, Germany
• Date of Photograph
  17.04.2026
• Instagram
  @alesja_brandt

Through the aerial perspective, architecture resembles a vast clockwork mechanism. Circular volumes and intersecting geometries suggest gears and moving components, turning the urban landscape into a metaphor for systems of order, precision, and the pas-sage of time.

Olesja Brandt is a Germany-based emerging photographer working across portraiture, architecture, and conceptual image-making. Her practice is rooted in a minimalist visual language shaped by clarity of line, emotional restraint, and an interest in the relationship between outer form and inner experience. Through photography, she explores themes of identity, vulnerability, silence, and transformation, seeking psychological presence and sincerity in faces, bodies, and spaces. She has developed her practice independently and through masterclasses with contemporary artists.