Dina Belenko
Dew Spirits (Single)
DESCRIPTION
Dew Spirits is inspired by melting ice and this special smell in the air when you can feel the presence of spring after a long winter. But it’s more of a memory of experiencing these things (and the longing to see them again). I used to live in a very cold climate, where you won’t encounter an icicle until April or maybe even May. Now I live in California and don’t see any signs of snow even in the dead of winter.
Still, I remember how ice glistens in sunlight, how it melts to water in your hands, and how the air smells faintly of dew and electricity.
This work is about homesickness — not for a place, but for a climate, a rhythm, a way time used to move. It’s about endings that arrive quietly. Maybe it’s winter ending. Maybe it’s something else entirely. The kind of loss you sense before you can name it.
AUTHOR
Dina Belenko is a still life photographer whose work explores the emotional and symbolic weight of ordinary objects: how mundane things — broken porcelain, scattered leaves, found keepsakes — can hold complex emotions and reflect human experience.
Awards & Honors
2025 – Color Awards, Dodho Magazine, finalist
2024 – The Florida Museum of Photographic Arts 2024 International Photography Competition, Still Life, Third Place
2024 – 500px Global Photography Awards, Technical, PRO First Place Winner
2023 – Orange Book: Artrepreneur’s Annual Book of Pro, volume 2
2023 – Autumn’s Palette, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts Gallery Show
2017 – Sony World Photography Awards, Commended List (2017)
2016 – Sony World Photography Awards, Best Split-Second Photographs (2016)
2014 – Awarded Photographer, published in 1x yearbook Memento, 1X.com (2014)
2013 – Photo Discovery of the Year, 18th St. Petersburg Photo Fair (2013)
Books Written
Pocket Idea Generator: Journal of Prompts and Inspiration, Bombora, ISBN 978-5-04-162581-8, 2022
Composition as Visual Storytelling, Bombora, ISBN 978-5-04-191692-3, 2023
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