Honorable Mention
Hair In My Dish
DESCRIPTION
“Hair In My Dish” is a playful approach to regular feeling life, where the days consist of unexceptional daily tasks. It plays with the idea of dull activities becoming peculiar and impossible to perform. The photograph focuses on the concept of hair and is inspired by trichophobia, the fear of hair. “Hair In My Dish” takes place in a world that feels like a nightmare, where all the food we try to eat is replaced with hair, leaving us lost in confusement and nervous feelings. AUTHOR
Vilma Leino (b. Finland, 1999) is a Berlin-based photographer. Her work focuses on self-portraiture, which she uses to reflect inner emotions, solitude, and difficult psychological stages. In her work, she creates female characters with untold stories and experiments with strong color schemes, composition, and the human body. The photographs often balance beauty and horror, and she uses humor as an aspect to lighten up darker subjects. Her photographs are a one-woman show, where being in control and the fear of losing it are in a constant dialogue, forming a story about personal growth, where fears are forming into strength. 