I choose life.

• Prize
  Bronze in Fine Art/Portrait
• Photographer
  Michael Dorohovich
• Photo Date
  12.09.2025

This image is a woman’s candid dialogue with the world. She is bare, yet never powerless. Her body bears the scars of struggle, while her eyes shine with unbroken faith. It is a story where pain becomes art. Where loss turns into a reminder of life. Where beauty is born even in places that seem consumed by darkness. This portrait speaks not only of one soul, but of every woman who dares to declare: “I choose life – against all odds.”

Michael Dorohovich is a portrait and documentary photographer. Born in the small town of Uzhgorod in Transcarpathia, Ukraine. Author of successful photo projects in Ukraine, such as "Famous and interesting personalities of Transcarpathia", "Cultural ethnos of Transcarpathia", which were noted and awarded on many world platforms.Solo mountaineer and specialist in solo mountain trekking (he traveled the mountains of the Carpathians, Crimea, Caucasus, Alps, Altai, Kamchatka, Pamir, and Tien-Shan).Recorded his travels and ascents to the top of the world in photo landscapes.