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Minimalism, within the reflective surface of water, does not seek emptiness but clarity. In this series, the camera attends to the most fragile appearances—shadows, echoes, and fleeting contours—until they reveal their hidden intensity. Each frame reduces the world to a gesture of light and line, where form dissolves yet becomes more resonant. The water’s surface operates as a threshold: it withholds as much as it discloses. Figures slip into abstraction, shadows stretch into pure geometry, and colors retreat into silence. In this reduction, what emerges is not loss but essence—the distilled vibration of presence itself. Minimalism here becomes philosophical. It suggests that the world is not defined by its fullness, but by the subtle interstices that hold meaning. The absence of detail sharpens perception; the quiet rhythm of the image expands thought. These photographs invite the viewer into a meditative encounter, where reality no longer insists on its material weight but offers itself as a whisper, a pause, a fleeting resonance. Through water, light, and shadow, the series proposes minimalism as an art of attention: to perceive less, yet to sense infinitely more.
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Steff Gruber
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People Photography - Portrait
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Switzerland
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William Lulow
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New York Photography - Cityscapes
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United States
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Glenn Goldman
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Architecture Photography - Abstract
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United States
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Jin-Tsann Yeh, Shan-Shan Ho
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Special Category - Digital Enhance Photography
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Taiwan