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Photographers in this issue

Hardijanto Budiman | 1st Place | Hardijanto Budiman, also known as Hardibudi, is a visual artist based in Jakarta, Indonesia. He uses photography as a medium to express his imagination, ideas, and creativity through images. His work reflects the journey of his life and is roted in imagination, emotion, and personal experience.He is a multiple international award winner, having received more than 300 awards from prestigious photography events around the world. His work has also been exhibited in 20 countries.

Elisa Gambalonga | 2nd Place | Elisa Gambalonga is a photographer who lives and works in Abano Terme, where thermal waters flow between stone and reflections. Her work immerses itself in the deeper currents of the human soul, exploring bodies, emotions, and spaces with delicacy and intensity. Fascinated by art, architecture, and design, she began her photographic journey in 2020, developing a practice situated between image, performative gesture, materiality, and inner exploration.

Lukasz Spychala | 3rd Place | Born in 1995 in Wroclaw, Lukasz Spychala, also known as “Koneser,” is an award-winning photographer and holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science. In 2024, he became a full member of the Association of Polish Art Photographers (ID no. 1375). His work has been exhibited in several exhibitions and published on numerous international websites and in artistic magazines. He works with a traditional Japanese Mamiya RB67 Pro-S medium-format camera, using black-and-white, color, and slide photographic films. His preferred fields are female portrait and nude photography, in which he particularly excels. His portfolio also includes fine art, cinematic, conceptual, and storytelling photography.

Ruby Steele | Honorable Mention | Ruby Steele is a London-based photographer who graduated from the University of the Arts London in 2018. Working across medium format, 35mm, and digital processes, her practice explores connection, myth, and psychological space. Her body of work Liminal Waters draws on the symbolism of shifting tides and the figure of the siren to examine thresholds, transformation, and states of in-betweenness, where identity becomes fluid and the familiar slips into the otherworldly.

Sarah Aha | Honorable Mention | Sarah Aha is a conceptual fine art photographer based in Richmond, Virginia. With a background in Theatre Arts and over a decade of study in diverse dance forms, her practice is informed by a deep engagement with movement and the human form in dialogue with nature. Often appearing as the subject of her own work, she creates self-portraits and conceptual images that invite viewers into layered experiences of the world, where the familiar and the dreamlike coexist.