1st Place, "The White Contamination" by Florian Ruiz

In the snowy landscapes of the heights of Fukushima, I have captured the invisible pain of radiation. Inspired by Japanese engravings, I hoped to capture the fleeting moments, the ever-shifting perceptions of nature, where radiation accumulates the most.
Using a Geiger counter, I measured the radioactive contamination in becquerels (Bq), a unit that expresses atomic disintegration per second. By a process of staggered super impression, I intended to show the atom’s alteration in my pictures. The transparency effects and broken perspectives give rise to a shape that is in motion, an impermanent world.
I then created a vibration, a departure from the reality of the subject that reveals the presence of radiation in the image. The process reinvents and twists the very landscape, leading to a sort of vertigo, a threatening danger hidden behind the purity of the white of the landscapes.

With a geiger counter, I measured the radioactive contamination's presence in

becquerels (Bq), a unit that expresses atom disintegration and its mutation's number per second. By a process of staggered superimpression, I intended to show the atom's alteration in my pictures. The transparency effects, the broken perspectives give rise to a shape that is in motion, an impermanent world.

Then, I created a vibration, a departure from the reality of the subject that reveals the presence of radiation in the image. The process reinvents and twists the very landscape, leading to a sort of vertigo, a threatening danger hidden behind the purity of the white of the landscapes.