- 21st May 2013
- Working with photographers in 23 countries.
Series Winners and finalists new competition-Urbanscape 3
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First place - GoldAfter living in Melbourne and watching the city’s continual progression into drought, I find myself developing a very different relationship with the wet weather. Rain has become something I look forward to, and something which has a fascinating playfulness in the way it transforms the city. All of a sudden surfaces which are so familiar are enlivened with a new personality, the water adding a sheen or creating a puddle and capturing reflections which were never evident before. Contrasting landscapes are set before you by nature in a momentary reflection. |
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Second place - SilverURBAN LANDSCAPE SERIES. TITLE: MEZZANINE - PHASE 1 |
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Third place - BronzeIn 'Untitled' I blend the margins of photography, painting and film by creating video stills and transferring them into the realm of photography. But my interest goes beyond media boundaries to include those between the self and the world. I used to photograph people who were alone, unobserved and lost in thoughts. People do not appear in ‘Untitled’, yet they are present. To me these works are like scraps of faded, blurred memory, transferred images, sombre remains of past events, echoes of my family's history, outposts of memory... |
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CommendedNew-York captured on Polaroid Polagraph film, 3 months before 09/11. |
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CommendedThis project About the Traveller explores the notion of travelling. It focuses on the emotions of the traveller while moving through cities and industrial areas… These places have no particular meaning to the traveller, the travelling and places passed are only to reflect how one feels while being on the journey. This series explores these questions: What is it like to be between places? What is it like to for a moment not belong anywhere? Some journeys are bigger and some are smaller, some are important and some are not. This project seeks uniqueness of the experience of travelling in them all. |
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CommendedSHADOWS GHOSTS AND DEFECTS James Dean Diamond’s abstract metropolis features ghostly figures emerging from the shadows of a city. A displaced population has become an outline of their former selves, leaving traces across time, as they intertwine with spirits from the past, present and future. Exploring the fragility of human life and its psychological well being, the work is symbolic of the fragmented nature of living in an urban environment and how this impacts upon the human spirit. Simplifying and deconstructing the subject matter, the solid structures and characters are transformed into a translucent state. |
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CommendedThe Heygate Estate in London is synonymous with the disastrous urban planning of the 1960’s and 70’s. Now largely vacant, it is used as a backdrop for film and TV crime drama such as Harry Brown and The Bill. During the day it presents a grey, bleak example of urban blight. However, photographed at night using only the available security lighting, the estate takes on a more attractive, almost surreal quality. |
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CommendedSpiller's Millennium Mills, Silvertown, London. Hasselblad 500 C/M, Canon 550D, Olympus OM-2N |
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CommendedFacets of a concrete forest |
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CommendedEmpty Underground |
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CommendedSimilarities. Buenos Aires. Buildings. Windows. Pattern. Geometric abstraction. |
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Commendedjust passing |
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CommendedIn this sreies are NYC buildings reflected on clean and polished midtown cars. Photographed on a clear winter day, 2009. |