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Bronze 2026 Portfolio / Fine Art

STIGMATA MUNDI Scars of the Anthropocene

  • Photographer
    Mauro Scarfone
  • Prize
    Bronze in Portfolio / Fine Art

Scars of the Anthropocene Nature does not announce its theft. It happens in silence — in a mine carved hollow, a quarry cut to the bone, a river forced through concrete. This series tracks what is left once the machines fall quiet: monumental ruins of an age that bent geology into right angles and straight lines. Shot in stark black and white, these are not landscapes but case files — clinical records of a broken equilibrium. Yet in the cracks, something persists. Moss finds the joints in the concrete. Water remembers its old course. Every empire built on force eventually answers to time.

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