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 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.