2023 – HUAWEI XMAGE AWARD

JUDGES’ COMMENTS :

This is an example of using pictures to express emotions. Just looking at the picture itself is nothing more than a technical victory; but when you see the title and the story behind it, your attachment to your mother and family bursts out.

Li Changzhu

Judge in Huawei Image Award 2023

Homesick remedy

BACKSTORY

The storyboard depicts a collection of random items my mom sent me when I told her I missed my childhood home: smoked paprika, horseradish, sea buckthorn, dill, « the only garlic worth eating, » homemade sour cherry wine and baby plants, so that my living room could look like hers. She knows I can’t find these in France, at least not “the good stuff” as she calls it. — Alexandra Dinca