2025 Still ImageAward Finalists

2025 Still Image Award Finalist Natasha Stone 2025 Still Image Award Finalist Natasha Stone

The Sylphs

Ana María Caballero
The Sylphs is from Being Borges, a poetic and (post) photographic recasting of Jorge Luis Borges & Margarita Guerrero's 'Book of Imaginary Beings,' a landmark work of Spanish literature. This series begs the question: What's at stake when language becomes literal via the visual?

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2025 Still Image Award Finalist Natasha Stone 2025 Still Image Award Finalist Natasha Stone

Candid

Jessica Tucker
Private photographs from the artist’s phone are transformed into eruptive bodies made of her own face. Subverting the deepfake to hide within her own image, they cannibalize visibility in a time when we are relentlessly reduced and reconstructed by invisible algorithmic gazes.

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2025 Still Image Award Finalist Natasha Stone 2025 Still Image Award Finalist Natasha Stone

Reflection

Pindar Van Arman
“Reflection” explores mechanical creativity as a robot makes marks, analyzes them with agentic AI, then deciding what to do next based on its own progress. Inspired by Paul Klee’s feedback loops, it’s a synthetic creative process at the threshold of information and imagination.

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