Wildlife / Animals nominee

This photograph captures the encounter between two jaguars — one with traditional rosette markings and the other melanistic — swimming side by side in a vegetation-covered lake at the Jungle Warfare Training Center (CIGS), in the Brazilian Amazon. Made with a camera from an elevated observation point, the image creates a vertical perspective that transforms the green surface into a continuous visual field, where the animals move through silence as complementary forces.

Without staging, the scene reveals a rare and serene coexistence: there is no confrontation, only distance, rhythm, and respect. These two forms — light and shadow of the same species — advance in parallel, expressing a natural gesture of Yin and Yang.

The framing emphasizes graphic qualities, texture, and movement, turning animal behavior into visual language. The water becomes a space of pause and mediation, while the floating vegetation forms an organic mirror that both connects and separates.

More than a wildlife record, the work reflects on coexistence, identity, and shared origin. The photograph arises from a real and unrepeatable moment in which contrast and belonging flow together, inviting the viewer into contemplation.

I am Ygor Sobesi, a Brazilian photographer born in the outskirts of São Paulo. My practice approaches photography as a territory of memory, where the everyday is transformed into visual narrative and lived experience becomes poetic material.

I work from real stories — my own and those of the people, bodies, and landscapes I encounter — creating images that move between the documentary and the contemplative. I am interested in how light, color, and time construct layers of presence, revealing emotional bonds and senses of belonging that often remain unseen.

My work investigates the image as a space of listening and permanence. More than recording, I seek to create photographs that invite pause and contemplation, transforming experience into language and giving visual form to narratives shaped by origin, territory, and memory.