The Garden of My Tenderness

• Prize
  Silver in Nature/Flowers
• Photographer
  Oksana Omelchuk

In this series, I wanted to move away from the usual shades of flowers in order to better convey the condition and feelings: from cold shades that are just emerging, as if after a winter frost, to unusual and new ones that appear in colours uncharacteristic for these flowers. To do this, I manually painted each photograph of flowers in a photo editor, as if I were painting a picture, drawing smoothness in some places, shadows in others, and flowers in this case are living organisms - translators of my feelings. But all these mood colors have one feeling that unites them – it is tenderness.

Oksana is a visual artist, architecture and fine art photographer, based in Kyiv, Ukraine. Art educational: Kyiv School of Photography, Ukraine, Form Photo Academy, Paris, France. Having a master's degree in Economic, experience in journalism and PR, this can be applied in the photo field, but in reverse: the photo is not an illustration now, but the main message, supplemented by storytelling. Her love of fine art and 6 years of experience in art school helps Oksana to combine photography and art and this combination is a way of her communication with the world.