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“I am constantly grappling with these contradictions and the limitations of photography \u2013 but in a way, that is what drives the work,” says the award-winning artist. | Credit: \u00a9 Dafna Talmor, United Kingdom, Winner, Professional Competition, Landscape, Sony World Photography Awards 2026<\/p>\n

Cutting into photographic negatives to create entirely new landscape compositions is at the heart of London-based artist Dafna Talmore’s practice. She transforms familiar scenes into fragmented abstract compositions that challenge how landscape is usually seen and remembered.<\/p>\n

Talmore<\/a>‘s ongoing series Constructed Landscapes has now been recognized internationally, winning the Professional Category \u2013 Landscape at this year’s Sony World Photography Awards.<\/p>\n

Built through physical interventions in the original negatives, the project turns destruction into a form of image-making \u2013 but the process, and what drives it, is best explained by the artist herself.<\/p>\n

‘Constructed Landscapes’\"Abstract<\/p>\n

Winning series: Constructed Landscapes | Credit: \u00a9 Dafna Talmor, United Kingdom, Winner, Professional Competition, Landscape, Sony World Photography Awards 2026<\/p>\n

Talmore explains, “I was taking photographs while travelling, trying to capture landscapes that were somehow meaningful to me, but after quite a few years, I became frustrated with the material.<\/p>\n

“The images had no meaning beyond my own personal interpretation, and I felt it didn\u2019t go anywhere beyond that. I found it interesting to try to turn that frustration into something productive.<\/p>\n

“It gave me the liberation to take the negatives \u2013 which I know for many photographers are something you wouldn\u2019t normally interfere with \u2013 and to use a scalpel to make interventions directly onto them, in order to reimagine and abstract the landscapes I had encountered.<\/p>\n

“The work that has been selected here is from the most recent sub-series of the Constructed Landscape series, from a private commission I was invited to respond to for a particular landscape.<\/p>\n

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Winning series: Constructed Landscapes | Credit: \u00a9 Dafna Talmor, United Kingdom, Winner, Professional Competition, Landscape, Sony World Photography Awards 2026<\/p>\n

“But I always think the point is to resist specificity and instead create a kind of utopian space, to think about the fragmentation of landscape and the multiple perspectives we experience when we encounter it.<\/p>\n

“For me, a single image is never quite enough to convey the experience of standing in front of a landscape, which we usually scan and view from multiple perspectives. It\u2019s about bringing those perspectives into a single image by using multiple fragments of negatives to reconstruct the landscape.<\/p>\n

“In this case, it was a private commission, so I was invited to respond to a very specific area. I don\u2019t mind disclosing the location, but in terms of the work, even the titles tend to be made up of codes, which I feel are as much an abstraction as the images themselves.<\/p>\n

“They try to mirror that intention, and also to grasp the contradictory impulses of photography \u2013 because although the work is rooted in a particular place and location, it is also about resisting that specificity.<\/p>\n

“So I am constantly grappling with these contradictions and the limitations of photography \u2013 but in a way, that is what drives the work.”<\/p>\n

For more information and to discover the full list of winners and shortlisted entries, visit the official Sony World Photography Awards website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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