Tango of Titans

• Prize
  Silver in Architecture/Industrial
• Photographer
  Ieva Gaile
• Photo Date
  2025

Battersea Power Station’s chimneys rise like colossal figures, cutting into a black sky with uncompromising force. Their scale speaks of an age when industry was power itself, monuments built to dominate both land and horizon. Yet the scene is unsettled - clouds drift across their base, reminding that no structure is absolute. A small airplane approaches, fragile against the chimneys’ weight, but embodying the same defiance - the will to occupy the sky. The image becomes a study of power and confrontation - titans locked in a silent dance, with vulnerability as their unexpected partner.

I‘m a 29-year-old lawyer from Vilnius, Lithuania. Despite following a different career path, I never lost sight of my childhood dream to become an architect. As I wandered the city streets, especially during the pandemic, I rediscovered my love for shaping the space according to my taste and understanding through photography. It allows me to play freely with forms, angles, and relationships of different structures without the constraints of functionality that come with architecture. Rather than taking a documentary approach, I use reality as my canvas and create my own interpretation of space