13/04/2026
Honored to have my work "Hitherto" awarded in the 12th Fine Art Photography Awards in the Professional Fine Art category. Thank you 🤍
Hitherto emerged from an ongoing exploration of the female body as both landscape and threshold. The photograph presents a n**e torso partially dissolving into a dense, cloud-like atmosphere. The body is visible, yet not fully graspable — suspended between presence and disappearance.
At the top of the figure, strange pocket-like hollows open from the surface. They resemble tunnels, wounds, or entrances — ambiguous spaces that suggest interiority without revealing it. These forms disrupt the solidity of the body, transforming it from flesh into terrain. They imply depth, memory, and the unseen architecture carried beneath the skin.
The title came intuitively. “Hitherto” means until now, suggesting a quiet turning point — a moment that holds everything that has been carried up to this instant. The enveloping smoke acts as both concealment and extension, blurring the boundary between body and atmosphere.
Rather than presenting the body as an object, the image evokes it as a site of accumulated experience — porous, changing, and marked by what has passed through it.
https://fineartphotoawards.com/winners-gallery/fapa-2025-2026/professional/fine-art/hm/23748
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