Mention honorable dans la catégorie « Écriture Poétique »

A young woman stands waist-deep in windswept coastal grasses, her body turned in profile to the horizon. The image is rendered in soft, silvery black and white, the tonal range stretching from the deep charcoal of the sky to the pale luminosity of her dress. She lifts both hands to steady a delicate floral crown as the wind threads through her hair, pulling it backward in a restless blur. The sea sits low and quiet behind her, a horizontal line that anchors the composition while the grasses move in diagonal sweeps across the frame.

There is a contemplative stillness in her closed eyes and relaxed mouth—an inwardness that contrasts with the motion around her. The dress, light and flowing, gathers at the waist and falls in gentle folds, catching what little light breaks through the cloud cover. The atmosphere feels elemental: wind, salt, grass, sky. Nothing ornamental, nothing staged.

Stylistically, the photograph evokes the romantic naturalism of Sally Mann—particularly in its textured grayscale and intimate relationship between subject and landscape. The grain and soft contrast lend a tactile, almost filmic quality, while the composition maintains a quiet austerity reminiscent of Peter Lindbergh’s stripped-back portraiture. It is less about bridal fashion and more about mood: solitude, becoming, and the fragile boundary between tenderness and weather.