Anirudh Koppula
Australia

Nominee

"Footy Time"

Biography: I photograph because I believe beauty lives in moments — in truth, joy, fragility, strength, sorrow, light, and silence. My work is rooted in the conviction that life is a mosaic and refuses to fit into neat categories, so I do not confine myself to a single style, medium, or genre. Photography, for me, is an act of vision and empathy, a way of responding to the immediacy of experience. I document fragments of the world: quiet streets at dawn, the interplay of light and shadow, candid scenes of human connection, stark black and white moods, and vivid colour stories. I am a Mobile...