Form Photo Award х SCOPE MIAMI 2026 Shortlist

Announcement

Form Photo Award
SCOPE MIAMI 2026
Longlist

The longlisted artists of this year’s annual competition, dedicated to contemporary photography with an open theme

Photo © Synchrotania

We are pleased to announce the longlisted artists of the Form Photo Award / SCOPE MIAMI 2026. This year’s selection brings together a diverse range of artistic perspectives, visual languages, and approaches to contemporary photography, reflecting the richness and evolving nature of the medium.

Supported by SCOPE Miami Beach and Picter, the Form Photo Award / SCOPE MIAMI is dedicated to discovering emerging voices and new visual approaches. The award fosters international dialogue, intellectual exchange, and cross-cultural solidarity within the art community, creating opportunities for artists to share their work with new audiences and connect with the international photography scene.

The longlisted artists will be featured on Form’s social media channels, bringing their work to an international audience.

We congratulate all the selected artists and thank everyone who submitted their work for their contribution to this year’s award.

Form Photo Award
SCOPE MIAMI 2026
Longlist

In alphabetical order

Alix Lang
AM+PM
Ana Garrido Santos
André Souza
Angélica Arbulú
Ann Zhulan
Ashley Chappell
Avery
Balsa Gobovic
bärbel reinhard
Chang Niu (Cici）
Courtney Allen

Damaris Betancourt
Daniel Santolo
David Nemes | n-e-m-e-s
Dora Grivopoulou
Dragos Coman
Fotiadis
George Hudson
Gignouxphotos
Gjert Rognli
Hart/Vargas
Ivan Morozov
Jorge Posada

Laurence Poirier
Margaux Corda
Miguel Sobreira
nancy poeran
Nathaniel Morrow
Oye Diran
Parisa Azadi
Petrina Hicks
Rëza Déhghän
Rik Roos
Sandra Buschow
Sinziana Velicescu

Synchrotania
Tanya Podubienko
Tommasino Maderna
Uwe Langmann
Veronika Hudzenko
Will Douglas
Yousef Poursohi
Yulia Zelenska

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Alix Lang
portrait of the palette

At first glance, the texture of these images closely resembles that of Expressionist abstract paintings; however, these colors are not the result of deliberate artistic conception. They come from the actual palettes used by highly representative artists of different generations in contemporary China, or from traces left behind by the act of painting beyond the canvas. Show more

Alix Lang (Li Xiaoliang) s works mainly include photography, video and multimedia practice. He is engaged in creating thematic long- term art projects .The project "Lonely Planet" series won the photography Dummy Award by Martin Parr in Lianzhou International Photography Festival (2016);and his project "peking apartments" won 11th Japan Photography publishing Awards (2026).

AM+PM
Meat Dollar Jacket

"Meat, Dollar, Jacket" was born from the desire to experience the exhaustion of the image and the elements that compose it, whether it’s shapes or colors. Already, through our photographic practice, we print our images to then scan them. A method, in our opinion, that conveys texture and materiality, which sometimes leads to the loss of certain details. Show more

Angèle Moraiz and Paul Mougeot are two Paris based photographers.

In June 2020 they created the AM+PM duo, meeting point of their respective artistic practices.

They create images where the objects coexist without hierarchy. Show more

Ana Garrido Santos
Everything is fine but it’s a lie (to subvert form)

We live in a culture that celebrates the appearance of well-being: smile, produce, function. But when the mind begins to crack, the environment steps away. Distress is hidden, disguised, turned into silence. In a context where socio-health structures fail and fragility is romanticized, pretending becomes a survival strategy.
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Ana Santos is a visual artist and art director trained in Contemporary Photography, specialized in conceptual imagery, digital postproduction, and color. Through her work she explores human behavior, difference, mental health, and the need for belonging, using the body as vanishing point, metaphor, or hypothesis. In her series, emotion disguises itself as geometry, humor coexists with fracture, and color becomes a language that illuminates darkness. Show more

André Souza
Solaris

Solaris researches the fictional archive of the homonymous state surveillance software developed to identify civilians at risk of heatstroke.

Originally presented as a preventive public health tool, Solaris repurposed obsolete maritime sensors designed for target acquisition, integrating facial recognition with live thermography. Field tests were conducted on the beaches of Salvador, Bahia, to profile individuals at risk, specifically targeting beachgoers and informal street vendors identified as socioeconomically vulnerable.

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André Souza (b. 1988) is an architect, visual artist, and self-taught photographer based in Salvador, Brazil, whose practice focuses on alternative and experimental photographic processes, blurring the boundaries between fiction and documentary. Show more

Angélica Arbulú
Handle with care

Handle with care is a journey of introspection and resilience. Arbulu has dedicated her career to exploring themes of identity, gender and belonging. This series represents a natural continuation of her work. The photographer delves into the delicate transition of adolescence, capturing moments of vulnerability, resilience and self-discovery using equally delicate materials, such as encaustic, tulle or glitter. Show more

Angélica has dedicated her career to exploring themes of identity, gender, & belonging. Her work is shaped by her experiences as a woman and a migrant. Each meticulously composed image becomes a visual narrative that invites reflection on the tensions & contradictions inherent to the human experience. She uses materials to intervene the images, blurring the boundaries between the visual & the tangible to create works that transcend mere representation & recognize the autobiographical nature of her work.

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Ann Zhulan
Silent Witnesses

"Silent Witnesses" is a visual manifesto documenting an era in which war reshapes the face of cities and threatens cultural heritage. The series focuses on the facades of Ukraine’s historical buildings — architectural monuments that embody beauty, history, and national identity. Show more

Ann Zhulan is a contemporary art photographer exploring themes of cultural heritage, identity, and the resilience of the human spirit. Her works are a fusion of emotions, existential questions, and the Ukrainian soul, reflected through symbols, imagery, and colors.
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Ashley Chappell
Magnetic Light in the Blue-High Haze

This photographic project explores Black belonging through symbolism, ritual, and collective memory. Inspired in part by W.E.B. Du Bois’s vision of Black history as a journey toward self-recognition and possibility, the work uses thread, landscape, gesture, and archetypal figures to consider how people remain connected across distance, time, and generations.
Working between photography, mythology, and performance, I create images that imagine Black life beyond survival alone. Show more

"A retired nurse, Ashley Chappell’s journey into photography unveils a tale of resilience and pursuing dreams. After being forced to leave nursing a decade ago due to lupus, Ashley found solace and purpose behind the lens during the challenging times of the COVID-19 pandemic. Exploring memory, myth, and the imaginative possibilities of Black identity. Living with lupus has taught her to move through stillness and transformation a rhythm that echoes throughout her practice.
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Avery
Late Fragment

Late Fragment is a meditation on impermanence. Exploring themes of life, death, (non)duality, change, and memory, these photographs have been my attempts at understanding the world and my place in it. Inspired by Taoist and Buddhist thought and practice, they act as an extension and reflection of my own life and spiritual practice, and can be viewed as my flickers of clarity as I entered into adulthood, as I now transition into womanhood, as I examine the meaning of selfhood, and as I see its dissolving. They are less answers than they are questions than they are the brief moment before the question arises, where understanding is just as near.

Avery Moss-White (b. 2000) is a photographer born, raised, and based in South London.

Driven by a lifelong fascination with the human condition, Avery’s work focuses on the places of unity and division found within it. She is interested in what it means to be human, as well as what it means not to be: life as well as death, the rise of the chest as much as its fall. Her work is rooted in the documentary tradition and is guided greatly by the practice of personal documentation. Show more

Balsa Gobovic
Essentials

Essentials is a photographic project that explores coexistence, identity, time and change through flowers as both motif and material. This submission presents the camera-less body of the project, bringing together direct photograms and darkroom enlargements of flower petals. The project reflects on family life and the ways in which time spent together gradually changes our understanding of ourselves. Identity is not viewed as something fixed or isolated, but as something continuously shaped through relationships, care, attention and shared experience. Show more

Balša Gobović (Podgorica, Montenegro) is a photographer, artist, educator, husband, and father. His practice explores identity, time, memory, transformation, and human relationships through analogue, camera-based, and camera-less photographic processes. He approaches photography as a form of reflection and research rather than solely as a means of representing reality.
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bärbel reinhard
erratics

Erratics is an ongoing photographic project that investigates the migration of images, the materiality of memory, and the instability of visual meaning. The work combines found photographs from magazines, archives, and printed matter with my own images and fragments of organic materials gathered through walking—stones, branches, leaves, and flowers. Show more

Bärbel Reinhard (1977) is a german artist working with photography, based in Tuscany, Italy. After graduating in art history, sociology and modern german literature (MA) at Humboldt-University Berlin, she received the three-year professional degree in photography at Fondazione Studio Marangoni in Florence. Her work has been exhibited in various shows in Italy and abroad, such as at the European Month of Photography Luxembourg, galleria Metronom Modena, New York University Florence. Show more

Chang Niu（Cici）
Behind The Curtain

This Project explores how individual identity is formed within collective systems. Combining photography and video, the project draws from memories of growing up within China’s public education system, where discipline, repetition, and standardized structures shaped everyday life.

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Chang Niu works across curation, fashion photography, and UI design. Experienced in editorial production, exhibition-based projects, and digital interface design, with a practice that integrates AI-assisted imagery and dynamic visual scenes into contemporary visual storytelling

My work explores uncertainty, memory, emotional imprints. The traces of lived experience. I want viewers to recognize fragments of their own stories—abstract, surreal, deeply personal.

Courtney Allen
Shepard Tone

Shepard Tone reflects themes of fallible memory and the blurring of a relationship’s past with looping recollections. Like the Shepard tone-a sonic illusion in which a sequence of tones seems to rise endlessly without ever reaching resolution-this series reflects an atmospheric state of perpetual return, where moments repeat, shift, and function as visual echoes, suggesting memory not as linear narrative but as a looping, recursive experience.

Courtney Allen (b.1988) is an American artist and photographer based in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BS in Photojournalism from Boston University in 2010. She is co-founder of the curatorial project, Magic the Gallery. Splendor, published with Deadbeat Club (LA) in Fall 2024, is her debut monograph.

Damaris Betancourt
Yahíma-s Kitchen Revisited

On March 12, 1962, Fidel Castro announced by decree (Law 1015/62) the introduction of the so-called "Libreta de Abastecimiento" (ration book). This was a system for food distribution and price control. It was intended to ensure that staple foods were affordable for the entire population. The document lists the products that, in the government’s view, should be part of every family’s basic food basket—allegedly at subsidized prices. Show more

The photographer was born in Havana in 1970. Despite her initial doubts, she began studying law at the University of Havana in 1988 but later dropped out because her true calling was journalism—a field she could not enter without membership in the Communist Youth League.

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Daniel Santolo
Neo Monumento

During my childhood in Venezuela, the sculptures of Francisco Narváez formed part of the landscape through which I learned to understand my country. His figures embodied the image of a nation proud of its people and cultural identity, transforming ordinary bodies into symbols of collective dignity. Today, those monuments remain as traces of a profoundly transformed country, where many of the ideals they once represented have fractured.

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Daniel Enrique Santolo Franco, was born in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1994. As a Venezuelan visual communicator, he has developed a multidisciplinary practice working as a Creative Director, Art Director, and Photographer. He studied Social Communication with a focus on audiovisual media and has over six years of experience in the fields of advertising and fashion. Show more

David Nemes | n-e-m-e-s
Sensorgraphy

Sensorgraphy is a series in which photography is reduced to its most elementary condition: light acting directly on the camera sensor, without a lens. By removing the tools of description and control, the work abandons representation and focuses instead on raw interaction, exposure, and chance.
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Born in 1980 in Budapest, Hungary, David Nemes is an abstract artist working with photographic processes. Originally trained in architecture, he later worked as a commercial photographer in the United Kingdom before turning toward an artistic practice.

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Dora Grivopoulou
Archive of Inner Selves

In the beginning of 2026, after completing a closed cycle of group psychoanalysis, I felt an urgent need to return to earlier versions of myself and confront the monsters of my history that I had avoided for years. At the same time, I felt the pressure of creating a final project after completing a two-year conceptual photography workshop with photographer and curator Ypatia Kornarou.
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Dora Grivopoulou is an emerging Greek photographer celebrated for her compelling storytelling and distinctive artistic vision. Her work masterfully blends a rich narrative sensibility with meticulous attention to detail, creating evocative images that resonate deeply with audiences.
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Dragos Coman
Memento Floris

These photographs revisit the language of classical painting through the vocabulary of the contemporary world. Inspired by the vanitas and theatrical compositions of the Old Masters, the series replaces silver goblets, extinguished candles, and sacred objects with the fragments of modern existence: tangled cables, screens, headphones, plastic surfaces, urban skylines, and technological debris. Show more

STUDIES:
1999 — 2000: MASTER IN RESEARCH AND ARTISTIC CREATION / UNARTE BUCHAREST
1994 — 1999: UNARTE BUCHAREST / GRAPHICS
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Fotiadis
Norther Folklore

I didn’t go to the North to make a project. It started without a clear plan, just by being there for a long time and trying to understand the space around me.
The environment felt extreme. The cold, the wind, the black sand, the sea — everything had a strong presence, but at the same time it felt far away. Sometimes there was nothing, just silence. Other times it felt like the landscape was moving, like it had its own energy.
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Dimitris Fotiadis is a Greek photographer, filmmaker and screenwriter based between Greece and Iceland. His photographic work explores isolation, memory, mythology, faith and the relationship between humans and landscape, often combining poetic realism with dreamlike and atmospheric imagery. His work has been published in C41 Magazine, NOICE Magazine and Figures Photography. In 2026, he was selected for Fresh Eyes in Amsterdam and Ephemere Tokyo Anthology 3.

George Hudson
Ghosts

"Ghosts" explores the ways in which loss and grief both expand and contract our inner and outer worlds, re-writing our sense of self. However, this exploration began not with a camera, but deep in the jargon of science and engineering. I explored communities of cellular biologists, aerospace engineers, topology mathematicians, and more in search of inciting terminology. Show more

George Hudson is a Chicago based fine art photographer whose work explores the complexities of human relationships. Known for his intimate, psychological portrayals of characters through narrative forms, he frequently collaborates with actors, designers, and theatre artists.

Gignouxphotos
You can see me, but I don't exist

"You can see me, but I don’t exist" is an exhibition of photography by Alan Gignoux and creative writing by people seeking refuge living in Birmingham, London, and Manchester.
While photographing refugees in Europe in 2018, Alan Gignoux noticed that a recurring theme among them was the gradual erosion of self, resulting from prolonged periods of living at the fringes of society.
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Alan Gignoux has been working as a documentary photographer since 2000. He holds an MA in Documentary Photography from the London College of Printing.
Gignoux specializes in long form documentary projects that explore an issue over an extended period, sometimes several years. His recent work reflects his commitment to environmental issues and refugee situations.
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Gjert Rognli
What nature knows - Dan maid luondu diehtá

With the photography project "What nature knows" Rognli draws in references from his affiliation with Arctic Northern Norway, to light, darkness and the seasons. He transforms ordinary landscapes into an enigmatic place to be and takes us on a visual experience in the evening and the atmosphere of the night. In the project he immerses light installations in water, and creates harmony where there is conflict between the elements. He illuminates nature with LED-lights and luminescent material.

Gjert Rognli is an interdisciplinary artist, inspired by his Arctic roots, Sami cultural heritage and nature. The power of nature serves as the heart of Rognli’s artistic practice, which spans a wide range of media, including film, photography, sculpture and performance. This has earned him international recognition and exhibitions at home and abroad, and his art films have had the opportunity to contribute their message at the international environmental conferences COP27-Egypt and COP28-Dubai. Show more

Hart/Vargas (Sharon Hart and Izel Vargas)
far becomes near

An ongoing collaboration Hart/Vargas (Sharon Lee Hart and Izel Vargas)
Works from 2024−2026

Our visual conversation, titled far becomes near, is constructed from scraps, tests, and unfinished pieces. Our individual iconographies merge through shared experiences, creating transitional spaces that conjure memory, domesticity, and the super/natural world through photo-based mixed media.
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Hart/Vargas is the collaborative practice of South Florida artists Sharon Show more

Ivan Morozov
Gesture of the Inanimate

An object acquires a gesture at the exact second it stops moving. The whole series rests on that coincidence: to bring a thing to life and to arrest it are one and the same act.

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Ivan Morozov (b. Sergiev Posad, Russia) lives and works in Moscow. He works across analogue and digital photography, experimental printing and object-based experiments. Direct flash is the core of his method: he photographs whatever has broken out of the city’s smooth surface — discarded objects, damaged infrastructure, people who fall outside the pattern. Under this cold, indifferent light objects begin to act as though alive, while figures bleach into anonymous silhouettes.

Jorge Posada
Filmores Hotel

I spent four years engaging with, listening to, befriending and recording a last of its kind community in downtown Toronto. A hotel and a gentleman’s club in a challenged area. The building was seen as a sketchy and dark place and yet in truth it was a close-knit and caring microcosm of society. Now all displaced and scattered due to development.

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Originally from Medellin, Colombia, Jorge studied philosophy, law and art/photography in Bogota. His artistic ideas are embedded in Platonic and Hegelian dialectic. His interest in community, history and society as an outside observer stems from his immigration to Vancouver, Canada in 2004 when his family were uprooted as refugees. His first Canadian photographic exhibition was in 2006. Show more

Laurence Poirier
The Solitudes

My practice exists at the intersection of sculptural gesture and photographic image, transforming our perception of the physical world. I am interested in the temporal materiality of clay, the recording capacity of photography, and the transformative possibilities offered by digital tools.

Alternating between sculpture and photography is fundamental to sustaining these two distinct practices. Show more

Born in Montreal / Tiohtià:ke / Mooniyang, Laurence Poirier holds a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from Concordia University in Montréal, Canada. After working in commercial photography for more than a decade, she chose to slow her pace and dedicate herself to a more reflective artistic practice. Show more

Margaux Corda
Becoming

In a visual culture dominated by standardized beauty norms, the body becomes a space for experimentation, transformation, and self-expression. Through makeup, prosthetics, and adornments, it shifts, transforms, and reassembles itself. The skin becomes an active surface: a place where identities, fictions, and forms are invented, but also where a future self is constructed.

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Margaux Corda, born in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1994. Graduated from écal (Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne) with a Bachelor's degree in visual communication, specializing in photography in 2018. Currently works between Paris and Lausanne as a freelancer. Her artistic work focuses on the themes of identity, beauty and heritage. Their perception through our Western society. Show more

Miguel Sobreira
Masks of becoming

As a child, I spent years making puppets from toilet rolls and creating stories for them. As an adult, in searching for the art and imagery I wanted to make, I found myself returning to that place of innocence, imagination, and freedom.

My work is rooted in Africa, where I was born, yet it is equally informed by my Portuguese heritage and decades of living in the United Kingdom. Show more

Born in Cape Town, South Africa, to Portuguese parents, Miguel originally studied Textile Design, in South Africa, before travelling and eventually settling in London.
He sold fashion fabrics and freelanced in textile design as well as doing a few private art commissions and installations. During this time he also studied Art History with the Open University.
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nancy poeran
Individuation

Individuation reflects on identity as a continuous process of becoming. Rather than approaching identity as something fixed, the work sees it as layered and shaped by experience and perception.

The series brings together photography, drawing and artificial intelligence to create images that move between what feels familiar and what seems constructed. AI is part of the process, not the outcome. It functions as a tool that shifts perspective, introduces friction and opens space for images to evolve in unexpected ways.

Nancy Poeran
I explore identity as something fluid, never fixed, never fully visible. My work begins with photography, but refuses to stop there. Through a layered dialogue between the lens, hand-drawn sketches, and artificial intelligence, I construct images that hover between what is seen and what is felt.

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Nathaniel Morrow
Catchlight

Photographs are traditionally collaborations between photographers and their subjects. The photographer plays a critical role, but without a subject, a photograph can’t exist. I wanted to make photographs with no subject at all—to create something from nothing.

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Nathaniel Morrow (b. 1992) is an artist and photographer based in New York.

Working primarily without lenses, Morrow uses his hands and a bare camera sensor to produce shapes from raw light. Informed by his training as a writer, his work explores the nature of creation, the creative act, and the limits of images.

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Oye Diran
The Weight & The Wings

This conceptual photo series explores the duality of motherhood. The quiet resilience that carries the weight of generations, and the nurturing power that gives rise to flight. Through the bond of mother and daughter, the work conveys both grounding and ascension: the mother as anchor, protector, and source; the daughter as reflection, continuation, and expansion. Show more

Oyè Diran, the visionary photographer and art director based in the vibrant streets of New York, weaves narratives inspired by the duality of his upbringing in Lagos, Nigeria, and the eclectic energy of the city. Born into a family immersed in creativity, Oyè's artistic journey ignited in the sanctuary of his mother’s art studio, evolving into a profound commitment to visual storytelling.
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Parisa Azadi
Yadegari (In Remembrance)

In September 2022, as a revolution against the Islamic regime spread across Iran, I witnessed it from Dubai through the unstable glow of phone screens.

Protesters used cellphones to record the brutality as the regime violently suppressed the uprising and censored images through internet blackouts. Show more

Parisa Azadi is an Iranian-Canadian visual journalist whose work is grounded in themes of political violence, social injustice, and radical resistance within historically oppressed communities.

Parisa has reported politically sensitive issues such as the Syrian refugee crisis in Jordan, missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada, and religious extremism in South Asia. Since 2017, Parisa has been working in Iran, examining the nuanced dynamics of communities living in the aftermath of political violence.

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Petrina Hicks
The Fates

The Fates is an ongoing series of photographs inspired by the Moirai—the three sisters of Greek mythology who spin, measure and cut the thread of every human life. Drawing upon the long history of weaving and spinning as female practices, these works consider the thread as both material and metaphor: a symbol of fate, memory, connection and the invisible structures that shape our existence.

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Petrina Hicks is an Australian artist based in Sydney, she creates large-scale photographs that draw from mythology, fables, and historical art imagery to re-frame the contemporary female experience.

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Rëza Déhghän
The Fading Roses

The Fading Roses is a photographic narrative with a poetic tone, reflecting my perspective on the inner life of the young generation of Iranians living through war, uncertainty, limitation, and psychological tension. Most of these photographs were made during the war in Iran in 2026, and as I submit this work, the war is still ongoing.

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I am a visual poet born in 1990 and based in Shiraz, Iran. Rooted in the lyrical legacy of my grandfather — a published poet and storyteller — I explore photography and video art as contemporary forms of verse. Show more

Rik Roos
Anatomy of the quiet

Through restrained compositions and muted atmospheres, "anatomy of the quiet" examines the beauty, meaning, or quiet intelligence hidden in ordinary everyday life.

Rik Roos is a Dutch photographer based in Amsterdam. His conceptual photography explores the tension between intimate emotional states and the social and technological structures that shape contemporary life. Moving between personal vulnerability and everyday environments, Show more

Sandra Buschow
Häutungen Shedding

Häutungen/Shedding treats the body as a living archive of inherited and transgenerational experience. Working at the threshold between figuration and abstraction, the series renders the body as colour, form and surface, present but not fully legible.

Colour operates as emotional language rather than symbol. Show more

Sandra Buschow is a fine art photographer whose work explores intimate, poetic portraiture at the intersection of vulnerability and strength. Combining self-portraiture with experimental and narrative approaches, her practice transforms personal experience into a visual language of resilience.
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Sinziana Velicescu
Purgatory, Paradise

Purgatory, Paradise is an ongoing photographic series examining civic and commercial architecture across the American landscape. Traversing corporate centers, museums, municipal buildings, warehouses, retail strips, and the parking lots that connect them, the work explores how built environments shape emotional and psychological experience within contemporary American life.

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Sinziana Velicescu is a Los Angeles–based artist working across urban landscape and architectural photography. Her work examines the relationship between built and natural environments, focusing on how architecture shapes and reflects the American landscape. Through images of civic, commercial, and transitional spaces, she explores contemporary infrastructure and the visual language of the built environment.

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Synchrotania
Innerland

Innerland is an ongoing installation-based analog photography project that explores the inner worlds of Ukrainian creatives, artists, and visionaries living through turbulent times. Each portrait transcends simple likeness, becoming a staged collaboration in which site-specific installations are constructed to reflect the subject’s personality and inner landscape.
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Tania Shcheglova is an artist from Ukraine that has been working as part of Synchrodogs art collective (2008−2023). In 2023 she started conducting a solo art career in fine art photography and installation art, building a global photographic archive of creative minds and pioneering the concept of Inner World Portraiture.

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Tanya Podubienko
Expiration Date

This photographic series explores ageism, fading beauty, and the passage of time through still lifes of fruits, vegetables, and other organic forms. Inspired by the still-life photography of Irving Penn, the project finds beauty not only in freshness and perfection, but also in wilting, bruising, decomposition, and physical transformation.

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Tanya Podubienko is a visual artist based in Odesa, Ukraine, working with
photography and experimental processes.
Podubienko studied at the MYPH Conceptual photo school and Kyiv School of Photography and continues her education at Agora Experimental Photo School.
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Tommasino Maderna
Asterion

ASTERION is a series of portraits developed through processes of digital erosion and recomposition. The images resist stable likeness, becoming a site of tension between visibility and withdrawal: a place where the figures emerge only intermittently, marked by solitude and vulnerability, and yet rendered without defense or spectacle.

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Born in Italy in 1991, Tommasino Maderna trained in music and philosophy before turning to advanced studies in logic. He earned his diploma in Piano at 17, studied Classical Composition and Philosophy, and later pursued Logic in the Netherlands. In 2024, he completed his PhD in Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. Show more

Uwe Langmann
Mono no Aware

My photographs begin with simple, familiar forms: a row of trees, a cluster of reeds, birds, a frozen lake, falling snow, or a single human figure. These subjects require no explanation. Their familiarity offers an immediate point of entry, while their quiet visual language invites the viewer to slow down and remain with the image.
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Uwe Langmann
Solo exhibition (selection)
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Veronika Hudzenko
My paradise is full of Lies

Dreams help us endure. They become a hidden, safe place where one can find comfort. Daydreaming resembles sleep — it is just as elusive and fleeting.

I wish to find a place to escape from everyday life. Yet as I immerse myself in dreams, I begin to sense their illusory nature.

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Veronika Hudzenko is a visual artist, born and based in Kyiv, Ukraine. She has an academic background in graphic design, which laid the foundation for the development of her visual language. Her work explores themes of identity, personal transformations, and the space between dream and reality. Through her images, she explores how personal experiences intertwine with memory and perception, capturing the ongoing flow of change and the traces it leaves behind.

Will Douglas
Point Break

Point Break is a series of works that antagonizes the photographic image through form. I deconstruct Polaraid film by separating it from itself, revealing its inside chemistry. I dissect my own personal images as well as polaroids I collect from flea markets and the internet. In the studio, I pull the instant film apart by hand, revealing the interior makeup of this photographic object. Show more

Will Douglas (b. 1988, Charleston, SC) is an artist whose work navigates the intricate intersection of photography and sculpture. He earned his BFA in Photography and Film from VCUarts in 2012 and his MFA in Studio Art from USF in 2018. His solo exhibitions include Spitting into the Wind at Bob’s Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), Gone to the Dogs and Montage River at Tempus Volta (Tampa, FL), and Drawing on the Hearts of Men at Quaid Gallery (Tampa, FL). Show more

Yousef Poursohi
That Recalcitrant Shadow

That Recalcitrant Shadow is a yearlong photography project created in the immediate aftermath of weekly Freudian psychoanalysis sessions in New York City. Each Thursday, beginning just after noon, camera in hand, I moved through the city photographing without staging—following what surfaced from a charged headspace. Show more

Yousef Poursohi
I was born in Shiraz, Iran, in 1979, and came of age during the Iran-Iraq war and in the aftermath of my father’s political imprisonment. At 15, I immigrated to the United States with
my family, eventually moving to New York City in 2001.

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Yulia Zelenska
Melting Forms

Melting Forms is a photographic series exploring the transformation of familiar objects into ambiguous, sculptural forms. Flowers, fruit, and glass vessels are detached from their everyday function and become quiet presences that exist between recognition and abstraction. The project reflects on the instability of perception, inviting the viewer to slow down and experience the fragile beauty of forms that seem to dissolve before the eye.

I am a photographer from Ukraine, now live in Vienna. I graduated from Kiev Polytechnic University. I was always interested in fine arts. I recently studied photography at the Kiev School of Photography. In my works I explore the beauty in simple unremarkable things, connections and aesthetics. I admire the diversity of colors and forms both in nature and in public life. Show more

Form Photo Award 2026 Jury

Hayley Smith

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Hayley Smith, Director of SCOPE Art Show and Sotheby’s Institute of Art alumna, leads the premier platform for international emerging contemporary art and multi-disciplinary creative programming. Hayley Smith is a prominent figure in the contemporary art world, best known for her role as the Director of SCOPE Art Show, a leading global platform for emerging contemporary art. Under her leadership, SCOPE has continued to expand its reach, showcasing a diverse array of artists and galleries from around the world. Her work emphasizes inclusivity, innovation, and the support of emerging talent, making SCOPE a pivotal event in the international art calendar.
Blayne Planit

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An artist, creative strategist, and curator, Blayne brings a multidisciplinary perspective sharpened through international experience across contemporary art, branding, and cultural strategy. She has lived and worked in New York, Southeast Asia, and Australia, cultivating a global approach to art and community. Most recently, she partnered on building the contemporary art platform Visionary Projects, where she developed innovative modules for connecting artists, collectors, and audiences.
Dimitri Bogachuk

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Dimitri Bogachuk is the founder of Form. Gallery and Form. Publishing, and the co-founder of Photo Kyiv Fair. An artist and curator, he graduated from the National Academy of Culture and Arts in Kyiv with a degree in art expertise. Through numerous photography education programs, he shares his experience with audiences and helps build a strong foundation for a new wave of talented young photographers—some of whom are now established artists exhibiting in galleries, museums, and fairs around the world, including Fotografiska and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.