Still Life Shortlist

After almost three years of war in Ukraine, many lives have been lost. The objects left in the wake of this war are now inanimate, but they once belonged to someone, served a purpose, saved lives or took so many more. From an artistic and contemplative point of view they can be seen as a ‘still life,’ but for those who have witnessed them in war, they are a ‘still death.’

Rui Caria is a Portuguese photojournalist from Nazaré. He collaborates with various media outlets. Rui Caria is a master in Communication. He has been a finalist and winner of several photography competitions, including the SWPA. His work includes the war in Ukraine in 2022 and his coverage in 2017 of a FRONTEX mission in the central Mediterranean Sea. Both works were highlighted. The first, in the book Ukraine: A War Crime, and the second was awarded series of the year by Monovisions Magazine