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22nd Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest People
(No) Ordinary Love

- ' A phone call is just like a morphine injection, how do I see you in others? How do I unsee you in others? ' This project delves into the contradictions and complexities of love that resist simplicity. Through fragmented moments and intimate compositions, it explores love as a paradox—both gentle and fierce, binding and breaking. Each image (the full project consists of 9 images) captures fleeting emotions, as if love is always on the verge of slipping through our fingers. It challenges the notion of love as ordinary, showing it instead as something elusive and layered, where comfort and struggle coexist.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 09.2024
Date Uploaded: 10.2024
Photo Location: Vienna, Austria
Camera: DMC-G5
Copyright: © Sofia P!llunen