"She burns silently in the unseen pyre of guilt, but she does not run. The smoke surrounds her, the red reveals her — not as a punishment, but as a metamorphosis. She carries the cross not as a burden, but as a key to something beyond fear, shame, the old self. She is naked, yet clothed in courage. She is burned, but not consumed. In this dance with the darkness, her resilience is not quiet — it is fire. It is the choice not to extinguish." "Burning for my sins" stands for resilience, as a fusion of pain and strength, of symbolic burnings and rebirth.
Silvana Retter is a Romanian/German national & internationally award-winning photographer and Jury, living in Germany. Educated in Journalism, she discovered her passion for photography in 2006 when she bought her first Canon camera. Many of her pictures reflect the feelings and moods she experienced during her travels over the last few years. Photographic Distinctions: EFIAP, EPSA, GAPU, MAAFR, MPASAP, GPU VIP-2, GPU CR.3 - since 2014 – Part of Photography Exhibitions in more than 50 Countries (over 160 Photography Exhibitions) - since 2018 – Jury in over 90 International Photo Contests