Travel nominee

Holy Ruins is a black and white series drawn from a sojourn through the Slovenian countryside. The work observes sites where faith, architecture, and time intersect, and where nature gradually reasserts itself through stone, structure, and abandonment. Rather than documenting decay as loss, the images consider ruin as a form of continuity—spaces shaped by belief and ritual that persist, altered but not erased, as human presence recedes and the landscape resumes its quiet claim.

Isaac Rowland is a photographer whose work explores architecture, landscape, and the human presence through quiet, observational imagery. Working primarily with natural light, his photographs focus on sites shaped by time, weather, and use, emphasizing restraint, structure, and atmosphere. His work often examines the subtle intersections between built environments, nature, and human gesture.