TITLE: BENEATH

This image reflects a complex web of unspoken truths and hidden emotions. Each day, we don our masks, crafting façades of strength, happiness, and composure. This art of concealment protects us, shielding our true selves from the world's scrutiny. Vulnerability is a delicate, fragile state — one that exposes our innermost fears, desires, and pain.

AUTHOR: ROHIT RATTAN (United Arab Emirates)

My photography plays on contrast to induce a surreal and minimalistic world that surrounds us. The lack of color, the prominence of light reveal the acute synthesis of thought and image pursued by me. A minimal manipulation is used to strip the simplicity of the composition from external element obtained by combining balance, inspiration and construction of the image. My photography reflects interests in varied forms of art and its endless variations, subjects created in my own very mind by absorbing the landscape and leaving in it the image of what my own soul brings together while the absence of colors accentuates the expressive power of the image itself whose interpretation becomes a medium of subtle yet artistic expression of solitude.