TITLE: Beginnings

“Beginnings” is about light carving a path through our own shadows, even as darkness presses in from both sides.

It’s about how we emerge. A new chapter doesn’t always start with clarity; sometimes it begins like this—with a single step forward.

The building, with its rigid symmetry, looms like history—our past. Solid. Fixed. In contrast, the figure moves: unfixed, unnamed, still becoming.

This speaks to the quiet decisions that shift our course. The way we sometimes enter change without knowing we’ve crossed a line.

This is not a portrait of triumph. It’s a portrait of motion—a reminder that meaning is made in the moving, not after we’ve arrived, but as we begin.

AUTHOR: Eugene Lee (United States)

I'm a Seattle-based photographer with a background in humanitarian work, where I spent years documenting communities shaped by struggle, resilience, and quiet acts of hope.

Those experiences taught me to move gently and see with intention—lessons that still guide how I photograph. In my current work, I’m drawn to in-between spaces: street corners, building edges, and the reach of nature within the city.

I look for the rhythm of daily life—the tension between what’s present, what’s passing, and what often goes unnoticed.