The Garden of My Tenderness

• Prize
  Silver in Nature/Flowers
• Photographer
  Oksana Omelchuk
• Socials
• Website
  http://oksanaomelchuk.com

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.

• Biography
  Oksana Omelchuk 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. Oksana combines her background, having a master's degree in Economic, experience in journalism and PR, with her love for fine art to create photography that communicates personal stories. She combines photography and art and creates artworks that blur the line between reality and fantasy, focuses on evoking emotions and philosophical depth in everyday scenes, inviting the viewer to engage heart and mind.
• Awards
  2024 – Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFA) – Silver in Professional category Nature/Flowers. 2024 - Budapest International Foto Awards (BIFA) – Silver in Professional category Nature/Flowers, 2 Honorable Mention. 2024 – Neutral Density Awards (ND Awards) – 2-nd Place and Silver Star, 2 Honorable Mention, in Professional categories. 2024 - Prix de la Photographie, Paris (PX3) - Silver in Professional category Nature/Flowers, Silver in Professional category Architecture/Interior, 5 Honorable Mentions in Professional categories. 2024 – FORM PHOTO AWARD – Shortlisted Photographer. 2024 – 23rd Julia Margaret Cameron Award – Winner in Professional category Nature, Honorable Mention in Professional category Fine Art. 2024 – 22nd Julia Margaret Cameron Award, Honorable Mention in category Fine Art, Non-Professional. 2023 – London International Creative Competition (LICC) – Finalist in category Create (Art), Non-Professional. 2023 – Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFA) – 6 Honorable Mentions in Non-Professional categories. 2023 – Budapest International Foto Awards (BIFA) – Silver in Professional category Architecture/Buildings, Silver in Professional category Architecture/Interiors, Bronze in Professional category People/Self-portrait, 9 Honorable Mentions. 2023 – New York Photography Awards - Honorable Mention in category Fine Art Photography/Architecture, Non-Professional. 2023 - ND Awards - 2 Honorable Mention in category Architecture/Interior, Non-Professional. 2023 - International Photo Awards (IPA) - Honorable Mention in category Fine Art/Steel Life, Non-Professional. 2023 - Prix de la Photographie, Paris (PX3) - Bronze in category Architecture/Historic, Bronze in category Fine Art/Steel Life, Honorable Mention in category Portrait/Self-Portrait, Non-Professional.