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The Cold Caress

The waterfall descends like a veil of light, its cold touch brushing against the quiet leaves. A fleeting dialogue between motion and stillness, fragility and strength.

Awards

World Photo Annual

2025

Honorable Mention

Fine Art

Professional

The Cold Caress

The waterfall descends like a veil of light, its cold touch brushing against the quiet leaves. A fleeting dialogue between motion and stillness, fragility and strength.

About Artist

Thomas de Franzoni

Photography allows me to translate emotions that words often fail to express. Through light, shadow, and simplicity, I create images that invite reflection rather than observation, where nature becomes a quiet language and every photograph is a space to breathe. I am not interested in recording reality as it appears. I am interested in revealing the emotions that emerge when light touches stone, when water finds its path, or when silence fills the landscape. My photographs are not destinations. They are passages—moments suspended between darkness and light, solitude and hope, inviting each viewer to complete the journey in their own way. Gold Winner - Architectural, 7 International Photography Awards (2026) Jury Choice — Street, Nexus Photography Awards (2026) Category Winner - Minimalism, Golden Shot Awards (2026) Gold Winner Rank #1 Italy - One Eyeland Black and White Photo Awards (2025) Great B&W Photographer - 35Awards Black and White Awards (2025) Photographer of the Year - Architecture, reFocus World Photo Annual (2025) Photographer of the Year - Minimalism, reFocus World Photo Annual (2024) Discovery of the Year - Architecture, Exposure One Awards (2024) Category Winner — Minimalism, Phi Photography Awards (2025) Category Winner - Minimalism, International Artistic Photography Awards (2025) 1st Place — Fine Art, Monovisions Photography Awards (2025) 1st Place — Fine Art, Nexus Photography Awards (2025) 1st Place — Fine Art Architecture, Phi Photography Awards (2025) Gold Winner - Fine Art, One Eyeland (2024)

Thomas de Franzoni

Photographic Areas of Focus

Abstract, Architecture, Fine Art, Landscapes, Minimalism, Nature

Location

Italy

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