Fine Art nominee

A Quiet Distance moves within the threshold between presence and disappearance, between inner and outer worlds. The project explores change as a lived, embodied experience — not as a defined event, but as a state of being.
Through an intuitive and slow process, I move between portraiture and landscape, between the human body and organic forms. The images emerge in moments of transition — where stillness shifts toward movement, and vulnerability carries quiet strength.
The title refers to the subtle space between what is seen and what is felt. It is not about separation, but about attention — a quiet awareness that precedes transformation.
The work grew from an experience of living in a world that rarely allows space for reflection, slowness or deep presence. Within that tension, the images search for stillness.
A central question in the project has been how my gaze as a woman shapes the way I portray both women and men — and how that gaze might create space for nuance, ambiguity and emotional depth.

Lisen Stibeck is a Swedish fine art photographer whose work has been exhibited internationally and explores identity, memory and the psychological landscape through long-term, concept-driven projects.
Her photobook Daughters, examining teenage identity and the fragile threshold between childhood and adulthood, received international recognition and awards, establishing her as a distinctive voice within contemporary fine art photography.
Stibeck’s work has been exhibited at Fotografiska (Stockholm), National Museum of Iceland, Centro Fotográfico Manuel Álvarez Bravo (Oaxaca, Mexico), and Dimbola Museum & Galleries (UK), among other international venues.
In her recent series A Quiet Distance, she refines her visual language into a distilled and poetic expression, exploring the subtle tension between presence and absence. Moving between portraiture and landscape, her atmospheric images evoke vulnerability, transformation and states of becoming.
Based in Sweden, Stibeck also works in Morocco and France.
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https://www.lisenstibeckphoto.com