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Ryan Gilbert
Ron Evans
"The Masked Color 2"
Ron Evans
This photo series was inspired by my four favorites subjects to photograph, all being combined in one, for each image. The four subjects are: primary colors, architecture, clothing, and people. Each character is assigned one main color. The characters are not only wearing their assigned color, but the characters are masked in a strategic way, and are attached or near some sort of architecture of the same color.
Mara Magyarosi-Laytner
Mistrusting My Nature
Mara Magyarosi-Laytner
Time is relative. Although humanity measures it at a consistent rate; seconds, minutes, hours, days, years - moments have the tendency to slow down or speed up drastically. Some moments go too quickly - celebrations, the summertime, a great meal with friends. For the most part, my life speeds by at a thousand miles per hour - except for when my anxiety disorder strikes. Sometimes during panic attacks, I slow down to a crawl with a fascinating symptom called derealization.
Derealization, according to WebMD, is a “mental state where you appear detached from your surroundings.” Objects may seem too real, or not real at all, around you. You feel as if you are swimming through a fog, but yet, at the same time, everything appears to be hyper focused. You may find yourself staring at the same area of blank wall for what feels like forever, but when you snap back into reality, only a few seconds have passed. The mind is protecting itself, I’ve been told, by counting pebbles of rock, registering grains of sand. The feeling passes eventually, textures go back to normal again, and the world speeds back up.
Tomas Vrana
Newborn
Tomas Vrana
Newborn is originally a series of 24 photographs devided to three parts - Breakfast, The Trip and Enlightenment. At the occasion of entering this competition I had to choose 6 key moments from the trilogy. I’ve tried to tell a story about a life-changing event by the photographs. A story about apathy and aversion to start anything new, about a sudden reversal that can happen in one’s head, about a journey to a dream or to a better self, and about finding it while accepting oneself at both mental and physical level. It’s a story about being born again.
Tomas Vrana
Eight Rooms
Tomas Vrana
Eight Rooms is a series of eight scenes - portraits - where people are captured in disturbing situations. Since there's an entry limit, this is a selection of six photographs from the series. My photography always reflects a contradiction between order and disorder, both in the physical world and a state of mind. Here I had the pleasure of working with actors from the Svanda Theater in Prague. Their acting skills went beyond the gestures of ordinary models, which gave me the opportunity to capture variations of possible stories hidden behind a simple look or move of the lip. The series was created as a advertising campaign for the theater season 2019/20.
Raul Ariano
Spring Hasn't Come Yet
Raul Ariano
I was traveling to Chengdu when the Coronavirus broke out, it started in Wuhan, a city in central China before spreading across China and rest of the world.
China locked down cities and millions of people were in self quarantine during the Spring festivals, which has been described as the largest quarantine in human history.
I had been photographing everyday of what happened around me in Shanghai, the city I have been calling home for the last 5 years, focusing on what I felt most during the phases of the spread: fear, uncertainty and distance.
I let the city talk for me, express my emotions and hopefully people’s emotions during the lockdown and its aftermath.
Hopefully spring will come soon.
Julia SH
Heavenly Bodies
Julia SH
I frequently take pictures of female models with body types that aren’t normally featured in photography. I often frame these models in a Fine Art context (e.g. portraying them as sculptures in a museum, as paintings, or geographical terrain) in an effort to hinder the viewer from making a kneejerk sexual value judgment. I encourage the viewer to take an aesthetic interest in the geometry and textures that make the models’ bodies unique, moving beyond society-dictated notions of attractiveness.
I challenge the concept of photography as a modernist medium by creating images that are inspired by sculpture and painting, and also approached as though created in a non-photographic medium.
Greg Kahn
Havana Youth
Greg Kahn
In Havana Youth, Greg Kahn explores Cubans born after 1989, who have only known a time after the USSR dissolved and left the Caribbean nation with few resources and a growth-crippling, US-led economic embargo. Those kids, born during what is called “The Special Period”, are now in their twenties and developing a sense of individuality in a society that was historically focused on collectivism. This is their cultural counter-revolution, and they are redefining what it means to be Cuban.
Yvette Tang
The Experiment
Yvette Tang
In ”The Experiment” there is an immediate dichotomy between the subjects normal self and the stripped image of truth revealed in the shoot. I attempted to delve deeper into several aspects of my subjects psyche and physicality through the playful use of light and the highlighting of expression. The process of revealing a model’s inner wants, needs and the search for their own truth begins with the deconstruction of the self that exists outside the shoot. In some ways, I attempted to use light and reflection to portray this escapism and the release of the true self that happens in such an unpredictable way with each different subject. "The Experiment” nature of the deeper self is such that whomsoever has the privilege to pull back the veil and see underneath that normal-world-exterior is immediately shown a plethora of emotion, desire and sincerity cast into life’s limitless colours and avenues of thought and action.
Billy Foote
Orchid
Billy Foote
It was my aim to create a still life showing the fleeting beauty of my orchid (now deceased). Rather than using color film, I was more interested in showing the beautiful tonality the flower has and the contrast I see in it's intricate petals. I felt using my favorite black and white film and developing technique I can show this.
Kylie Harrigan
Following My Father
Kylie Harrigan
“My dad is a Structural Engineer”. I’ve made this statement countless times over the course of my life, but I never fully understood what it meant until I moved home after my Master's Degree. My dad started his own business at the peak of the 2008 recession while raising 3 teenage girls on his own. He shifted from designing new commercial and military structures, to working on people’s homes and rehabbing derelict buildings destroyed by fire or disuse. This project started just as something to do while I figured out what to do next, but it turned into something very special that allowed me get to know a side of my dad, that as a teenager I wasn't interested in and as a young adult I never really comprehended.
Kylie Harrigan
Gleasondale Mill
Kylie Harrigan
During the late 18th and early 19th centuries the Mills were the center of the New England region’s economy. Towns like Lowell and Lawrence are two cities that sprung up around the Mill industry. Even in smaller towns that are now middle class commuter towns like Stow, the mills were not only one of the main sources of employment but also in many ways the center of the community. With the collapse of the mill Industry many of these cities and towns were left with large, empty buildings and an economic catastrophe that the larger cities are still struggling to overcome 100 years later. This project looks at one of these forgotten mills as a modern day ruin and aims to examine the intersection of memory and entropy through the Architecture and marks left behind by both time and the humans whose lives were spent working in the mill, and aims to showcase the mills as a cautionary tale in the dependence on one industry as the foundation of an economy.
Arnold Gallardo
H. Allen Benowitz
Photographer
H. Allen Benowitz
The trademark of my work is depth and texture, drawing one’s eye into the picture, highlighting varying objects’ multifaceted shapes and shades of light, and bringing a still image to life. Each captured image is motivated by passion behind the shutter.
Technique: in-camera manual settings.
Subjects: Nature, wildlife, people, architecture, and adventure travel.
H. Allen Benowitz
Fine Art Photography
H. Allen Benowitz
The trademark of my work is depth and texture, drawing one’s eye into the picture, highlighting varying objects’ multifaceted shapes and shades of light, and bringing a still image to life. Each captured image is motivated by passion behind the shutter.
Equipment-technique: Original acid-free archival pigment ink prints on art paper, signed. Acrylic-mount acid-free pigment ink original prints; certificate of authenticity; limited edition; lustre or matte prints, acrylic mount or framed.
Technique: in-camera manual settings.
Subjects: Nature, wildlife, people, architecture, and adventure travel.
Apeksha Agarwal
Mumbai Lost and Found
Apeksha Agarwal
I’ve been living in and out of Mumbai for about 12 years now. And never in these 12 years have I seen this city be anything but a sensory overload of voices, horns, smells and human traffic. This city, no different from my current home New York, is always exploding. You can get out on any time of the day or night, and you will always be greeted with traffic jams and people out and about. But with the current outbreak, we're seeing some unforeseen scenarios. The streets have never been emptier. The air and water has never been cleaner. The noise has never been this hushed. It’s like all those post-apocalyptic movies and video games were trying to warn us about something, prepare us for it even. Therefore, Mumbai Lost and Found is a photographic series that aims to document this new world we live in. It captures the stillness that hides behind all the hustle and chaos that the city of Mumbai is (in)famous for.
Carly Pearl Barrow
Sosie Almasian
Goo II
Sosie Almasian
The flow of the vibrant drips sink and pull with confusing gravity. The liquid, ever-changing feelings from the chemicals in our brain can lead to irrational emotion. The perspective we reach after these intense emotions comes from the light refracting and rippling through the complicated textures of our own predispositions. There are natural patterns in this goo, just like there are patterns of extreme emotions and subsequent behavior. While these pictures are superficially psychedelic, it becomes clear that our imaginations and our emotions are kinds of hallucinations. It’s our own mind tricking itself. This work is about the romantic relationship we have with our own emotions. We love to bask in them, we get bored with them, and we love to hate them. There is a physicality to these emotions that I capture. The imaginary form for these feelings.
Carly Pearl Barrow
Hopes Light
Carly Pearl Barrow
I wanted to create a very thought provoking piece that would cause people to stop and reflect. Butterflies have long been a symbol of the hope and beauty that emerges from adversity–just as this butterfly emerged, breaking free from the rocks that were weighing it down.
Carly Pearl Barrow
Boyz Bieber
Dad's Negatives
Boyz Bieber
"Start with the people around you,
your friends and family.
A culture you have access to."
- Cathy Opie
My father has been a drug dealer for most of his life.
He is also an amateur photographer.
Originally from France, he fled back to his home country when I was 13 years old to avoid going back to prison in the U.S. He is not allowed back in the states, but his photos tell a fantastic story of adventure, freedom, and a bohemian ideology bred in 1970's New York City and carried with him ever since.
Dad's Negatives is an ongoing assignment combining the best of my father's photo archives with my contemporary portraits of his life that is a result of the story his photos illustrate. Originally conceived in 2018 after unearthing and scanning over 5000 of his original negatives, many of which had not been viewed since they were developed, the project has become a cathartic journey for me as an artist
and as an estranged son.
It is an attempt to share his photography with the world while attempting to forge a bond with the man I am getting to know so much more intimately
through his work.
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