Joshua Hasanoff had been at school on the day he took this photo. The 14-year-old, who lives in Sydney, Australia, is on the shortlist for this year’s Sony World Photography awards youth competition. “The Australian winter sunset is notoriously fast-moving, so I started preparing for the shoot as soon as I got home,” Hasanoff says. “I knew I’d only have a 20-minute window to capture the mysterious light between sunset and darkness, which would contrast with the brightness of a torch.”
Holding that torch is Ryuji, Hasanoff’s neighbour and family friend, whom he describes as “extremely cool and charismatic, with great hair, who dresses like a DJ, although he’s actually an art student”.
