Fine Art nominee

In this photograph, Palestinian dancer and acrobat Ahmed Kullab floats inside a transparent cube—a symbolic space that both contains and exposes him. The cube is wrapped in clear foil, bearing handprints in black, red, white, and green—the colors of the Palestinian flag—marking his physical and symbolic presence.
The image is part of an ongoing series titled I am Human, which explores the feeling of being watched, judged, or confined—like a body in a shop window or an animal in a glass cage. The subject's expressive posture, caught mid-air, suggests both flight and fall, a state between resistance and surrender.
Ahmed’s story as an artist in exile—displaced from occupied Palestine—echoes in the layered tension of this visual space. The handprints become traces of struggle, of identity, of longing. They are at once gestures of protest and pleas for recognition.
This work aims to challenge the viewer’s gaze: are we simply observing a performance, or are we complicit in its construction? At its heart, the image is a declaration—Ahmed is not an object, nor a symbol, but a human being.

Primož Lukežič, a graduate of photography, began his professional career as photographer around the year 2008. His style of photography lead him to collaborate with clients from both the commercial world and from the world of art. Soon after graduation, he became a notable lecturer at the Department of photography at the High school for applied sciences in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He teaches Fashion photography and part of the Composition programme.
He collaborates on a regular basis with renowned Slovenian costume designers, fashion designers, make-up artists and hairdressers.
His photographs have been published in various Slovenian and foreign media, and he has also presented his works at several solo and group exhibitions.
In his professional work, his favourite genre proves to be staged cinematic photography in which he always strives for tension between the subject and the objects in space, thus creating the necessary narration.