Photo of the Year 2019

"The winner of the competition presents a series of subtle and intimate photos of a Japanese dwelling and its resident, a weaver, demonstrating a sensibility and empathy that brings us close to the life of an artist. The nature of the architectural portrait is similar to that of a human portrait. The photos weave, so to speak, a narrative about something considered local and Japanese, however, at the same time pointing at something essential and universal. What we see is an almost non-existing architecture in close proximity with nature and its resident, who seems to be one with her dwelling. The open doors and windows combined with the soft lens, create a certain atmosphere between the outside and the inside which makes nature, human and architecture unite. A poetic narrative of an ordinary almost atmospheric daily life."