Winner 2024 / Photography / Landscape

The Mirror of Paradise Lost

  • Prize
    Winner in Landscape / Photography
  • University
    Beijing Normal University
  • Lead
    YICHUANG ZHAO

The work captures the desolation and dilapidation of an abandoned campground, exploring the deep connection between human technological progress and environmental change. The dream of returning to the childhood amusement park, which should be a joyful memory, has been transformed into an impersonal stage play in reality. The sculptures are eroded by plants, and the carousel's roof cloth is swaying in the wind, all these scenes demonstrate the relentless erosion of time on artificially created objects. has mankind's technological progress truly brought eternal happiness?