Julia Marie Werner, Photographer, Frankfurt

Description

A young child is captured outdoors squatting in the sand while wearing a handcrafted orange cardboard car costume featuring the word CAR painted on the side. The child smiles directly toward the camera through a circular cutout in the front of the vehicle prop. In the background, simple single-story corrugated metal dwellings sit on sandy ground under a pale sky, with several other children visible in the distance. The lighting is bright and natural daylight, casting soft shadows across the scene. The composition is captured with a documentary approach, highlighting the playful interaction and makeshift toy.