021-New York
1st Place Winning Image by Sheri Lynn Behr
from her surveillance series, Watching You
Mirror
Honorable Mention by Guanyu Xu
from his series, One Land To Another
and Directors
Honorable Mention
In The Cold Light of Night
Honorable Mention by Ellen Jantzen
from her series, Unity of Time and Place
Cicada
II
Honorable Mention by Nadezda
Nikolova-Kratzer
and Director's Selection
Alex's
Chest
Honorable Mention by
Rebecca Moseman
from her series, The Summer of Flying Lanterns
Woman and Ball
Director's Honorable Mention by Susan Guice
Slide and Clouds
Director's Honorable Mention by Brenda Biondo
Illuminate, to supply or brighten
with light; to make lucid; throw light on a subject; to decorate with lights;
to enlighten; to make resplendent or illustrious; to decorate a manuscript with
gold or silver.
The act of illumination, since it’s introduction in the 15th
century, has influenced our way of seeing and subsequently the world throughout
the ages; and so, keeping the definition of ILLUMINATE posted on my computer
screen, I set out on an adventure to journey through the fine work submitted
along this theme to The Center for Fine Art Photography back in August. There
were many images documenting the real world, others imagining a world far away
from this one, inspiring us to imagine places we have never been, or situations
we’ve never experienced before this visual moment.
A photograph primarily conveys a static image, although by
playing with contrast and depth of field, we may focus more precisely on a
certain object. To bring voice to an image is not a precise physical quantity
which can be measured - rather it is the sum of many often complex operations
that arrive as an expression of a photograph – this is how I juried ILLUMINATE.
In this international call for entries, there was no precise quality I was
looking for. I was not looking for truth, but something more elusive,
ethereal, untouchable. I was looking for personal themes, universal themes,
complex or dramatic scenes. I wanted to experience quiet moments just to
reflect on the beauty of the subject matter, the technique or simply the
tonalities of light and shadow.
Sheri
Lynn Behr received First Place for her photograph
“021-New York,”
from her series, “Watching You”
about her interest in surveillance and privacy. Behr writes, “With a concern
about government intrusion into our personal lives, I continue to find ways to
photograph aspects of the gray area that is surveillance in our modern age. I
came to realize while I was making photographs, I was being photographed as
well.”
Honorable Mentions were
awarded to photographers Guanyu
Xu, Rebecca Moseman, Ellen Jantzen and Nadezda Nikolova-Kratzer.
I chose Guanyu Xu for his photograph “Mirror,” part of his series, “One
Land To Another.” He was also chosen as Directors
Honorable Mention by C4FAP’s executive director, Hamidah Glasgow. “Born and raised in a
conservative family in Beijing, I use self-portraiture
of my death to confront the struggle between being both a homosexual and a
homophobic person.”
Rebecca
Moseman was selected for her photograph “Alex's Chest ” from
her series, “The Summer of Flying
Lanterns.” “My boys have always
played an important role in my photography. Their innocence, innate boyhood,
relationship to nature, slow process of maturing have always fascinated me.”
Ellen Jantzen was
chosen for her photograph “In The Cold Light of Night,” part of her 2015
series, “Unity of Time and Place.” Jantzen writes, “Some say, all time exists at once; the
indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and
future are regarded as a whole.”
Nadezda
Nikolova-Kratzer was chosen for her evocative photograph “Cicada II,” also
chosen as Director's Selection.
“In making art, I seek to peer beyond the surface while embracing mystery – to
open doors to forgotten memories; to glean that which is ethereal and distant
yet magnetic and strangely familiar.”
Director Hamidah Glasgow’s Honorable
Mentions also include Brenda Biondo’s “Slide and Clouds" and Susan
Guice’s “Woman and Ball.”
The
Center for Fine Art Photography was founded by photographers in 2004.
It is a nonprofit photography organization providing support
to photographic artists through exhibition, solo exhibition,
promotion, portfolio reviews, publication, education and connection to a
large community of other artists, curators, gallery owners and photographic professionals.
They are always free and open to the public.
EXHIBITION
December 4, 2015 - January 16, 2016
The Center For Fine Art Photography
400 North College Avenue
Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
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