The student award was taken out by Leila Middleton with the photograph Me.
Middleton described the piece as one of the first photos she had taken of herself.
“Despite years of obsession with photography, I have always wanted to be behind the camera, not in front of it. After I took this photo, I wanted to edit my freckles, my eyebrows, my chin – everything I saw in myself that I disliked,” Middleton said.
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“I think that learning to like how I look is important, especially as a teenager.
“That’s why I left the photo unedited; I wanted it to be me.”
