Photography is born as an act of exposure: to light, to time, to the gaze of others. But every light carries with it a shadow, every image a margin of opacity. I, Imperfect Light is an invitation to interrogate identity as a fragile and changing space, far from any ideal of transparency or completeness. Continuing with the theme "Loving Yourself, Beyond the Shadows," the YAP Festival offers a reflection that shifts from love as a relationship to the self as a process: a self that constructs, exposes, and transforms itself through images. A self that seeks not to correct or perfect itself, but to recognize itself in its own imperfection. Photography—today more than ever immersed in digital flows, algorithms, and infinite archives—becomes a privileged tool for exploring this condition. Not just a self-portrait, but a practice of awareness; not just a representation, but a political act of visibility. The “I” that emerges is neither stable nor definitive: it is fragmented, vulnerable, sometimes contradictory, often in dialogue with the body, memory, gender, the environment, and the technologies that traverse it. I, Imperfect Light invites young artists to explore the threshold between what is exposed and what remains in shadow, between the desire to be seen and the need for protection. The selected works will explore the theme through photography and contemporary visual languages—from video to installation, from archives to hybrid practices—examining the relationship between identity, image, and the present. In a historical moment in which the exposure of the self is often demanded, accelerated, and normalized, the YAP Festival proposes to slow down our gaze. To restore the image to its complexity, and identity to its right not to be fully legible. Because it is precisely in the imperfection of light that the self finds its most authentic form.