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Silver 2026 Portfolio / Editorial

Basque colours

  • Photographer
    Svetlana Kornilova
  • Prize
    Silver in Portfolio / Editorial

This project is about my experience of Basque Country within several days I spent there. The Basque flag carries bright red, green, and white. Yet while these colors fill the streets, my perception of the Basque cities shifted toward indigo blue and deep red. During my stay there I began to uncover my own urban Basque palette. Indigo blue evokes fishermen, labor, and the Atlantic’s presence; red speaks of struggle, resistance, and freedom. Green emerges from the oak tree—symbol of traditional Biscayan freedoms—and from the green richness of the landscapes that shaped my journey.

Svetlana Kornilova is a portrait and documentary & street photographer. Fascinated by culture, cities, architecture, art, dance, photography, colours, life dynamics. All these subjects are related to people living in these environments and keeping in touch with them. People and emotions are the most interesting for the artist. The main senses are sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch. She loves dance, music and visual art and captures these senses in her photography. People and their passion, their sincerity and involvement with the things they love to do are the main topics of artist photos.

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