Winter Structures

Photographer

Haochen He

Category

Italy Photography - Travel / Tourism

Company

Submission Group

Amateur

Year

2025

Country / Region:

China

Nestled in the snowy folds of the Dolomites, these timber lodges stand at the intersection of architecture and alpine memory. With sharply pitched roofs, deep balconies, and rhythmic façades, they echo the vernacular logic of northern Italian mountain dwellings—structures built not only to withstand winter, but to belong to it. Smoke rises slowly against the forested backdrop, and warm interior light spills into the pale silence of snow. Winter Structures captures the dual nature of shelter in the high Alps: both functional and emotional, precise yet intimate. It is a portrait of place where architecture becomes part of the landscape’s rhythm—anchoring solitude, warmth, and the human scale in vast terrain.

More Platinum Winner Winners
Professional
2025

Photographer / Company

Francisco Negroni

Category

Nature Photography - Volcanoes

Country / Region

Chile

Professional
2025

Photographer / Company

Piet van den Bemd

Category

Nature Photography - Panaroma

Country / Region

Netherlands

Amateur
2025

Photographer / Company

Matteo Strassera

Category

Nature Photography - Milky Way

Country / Region

Italy

Amateur
2025

Photographer / Company

Yuanfeng Mao

Category

Black & White Photography - Cityscape

Country / Region

United States