Conceptual nominee

I started my "Conceptual Fine Art Photopoetry" series after going through a dark time in my life. With time, it became a personal project of deep love, a reflection of life and death, purpose, and loss. A path to resilience. A journey of understanding: “When you lose a loved one, where does all the love go?” As an artist, I started exploring my life and my emotional state, searching for a way of self-expression, I created a new art form, photopoetry: written poetry, depicted in a magical emotional conceptual world. I want my imagery to move beyond the realm of photography into a deep contemplative space, where the viewer can deep dive and question everything about the world: time, faith, meaning, hope, purpose, and ponder upon the nothingness of existence. In my projects, I am hoping to open a path of healing for the lost, lonely, brokenhearted.

Daciana Lipai is a Romanian conceptual fine art photographer, poet, and author of The Photo Poetry Book. She presents her art in photopoems, a beautiful combination of written poems, conceptualized in photographs. Her work has been awarded and published in various journals, magazines, books, and exhibited in galleries.