Series Winners and finalists Still Life-Still Life 5

	First place - Gold Bakker,Roelof These photographs shows the contents of a council strong room storing blueprints dating from 1935 to 1965. The blueprints had remained untouched since the 1960s. They were moved to centralised storage at the end of 2010.
	Second place - Silver Ladd,Thomas These dry, whimsical photographs were made with domestic objects or in domestic settings and are intentionally open-ended narratives. The ﬁgurative language within the pictures makes referenced to the human ﬁgure. Objects are repeated within the series in order to create a formal dialogue between photographs. There were a number of conceptual and formal inﬂuences, here are a few: cartoons produced by Frederick Quimby, Roland Barthes’ essay The Rhetoric of the Image, Alfred Hitchock’s movies, table top photography, prose poetry, literary nonsense and animism.
	Third place - Bronze Osterlund,Rikard The 'Flowers' series is a contemporary rephrasing of the vanitas flower piece, inspired by the Dutch flower painters of the late 17th Century. The flower arrangements here are made up entirely of artificial flowers, silk and plastic, alongside toy flies, snakes and other reptiles. Every detail of the photographs is intended to mimic that which it is not; not natural, not the original, not a painting, not in a great British art museum. The plastic flowers become a symbol of our contemporary excesses, and willingness to replace the real with an easy-to-care-for copy.
	Commended Hiranprueck,Pimprae Some of the best moments in life are so fleeting. Too often we fail to even stop and admire these things. Because our lack of attention these treasured things in life are never documented. I wanted to capture these moments using an artist and their sketch on a chalkboard and photograph the artist as they interacted with their artwork. My project emphasizes the importance of giving value to everyday things, calling forth recollections of the playfulness of childhood, and capturing fleeting moments of artistic inspiration.
	Commended Rowland,Russ Still-Life portraits of my father and mother from ongoing series.
	Commended BASTEL,MARCUS Observations.
	Commended Kaye,Diane Part of a broader project to explore camera-less photography of natural forms around us.
	Commended Keohan,Erin I am a bit of a hoarder and love collecting objects and bringing the life out of them in a photograph. I tend to use lamps or other objects that emit light so that the essence of the photograph is created by the objects themselves. I hope to tell a story with the objects and allow people’s imagination to wander.
	Commended Reeves,Michael These photographs are part of the series 'Fragments', an ongoing project taken on a 'Holga', a plastic-lens camera that produces images with soft and vignetted corners. The unique optical characteristics of this low-tech camera are utilised to produce dreamlike images, bringing out the beauty of 'found' still life - neglected or abandoned objects, fragments of the world around us that we often do not notice.
	Commended Nichols,Jason Photos of things found in a normal household.