Sasha Kurmaz

Eyes on Talents member, Sasha Kurmaz, is the unanimous winner of the 2026 Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award for Red Horse. An ongoing project launched after the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Red Horse takes the form of a visual diary, composed of daily collages made from personal documentary photos, found images, notes, drawings, and things found on the street. The work conveys Sasha Kurmaz’s personal testimony about life in Ukraine and how it is constantly reshaped under the destructive power of war as he captures both his personal life and the lives of people around him who are trying to survive in conditions of constant danger. "A wild ride through the contemporary realities of war, Red Horse is also a moving meditation on the nature of photography and the value of individual experience," says Diane Smyth, a member of the jury and Editor of the British Journal of Photography and the Photoworks Annual.