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Betwixt

15th Pollux Awards, Alternative Processes, Winner

2021 Selected by Alice Gabringer IPA best of show curator

2021 Selected by Irina Chmyreva IPA Jury Top 5

2021 Selected for IPA Country Pick: United Kingdom

16th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, Alternative Processes, Honourable Mention

2021 International Photography Awards 2^nd Place in the Professional Analog/Film, Other

Children interact with projected images from their school textbooks - the slides, like magic, lay claim to another reality, time, and place. Here, in this liminal state, the photograph acts as a space of becoming, in which it is possible to make or explore visual meanings. The children’s responses to the images evoke new narratives. Optical devices, analogue processes and copper toning enhance the temporal ambiguity.

Betwixt makes explicit the implicit ways in which the photographic image resonates in the imagination. These images speak of our ability to enter, via performance, into other levels of reality suggested by the photograph. By stepping into the picture and turning the familiar into the strange, we can begin to question the photographic image's authenticity.

Circumnavigating Drake

19th Julia Margaret Cameron Award: Fine Art Series, Honourable Mention

Creative re-workings of a found lantern slide depicting the monument of Sir Francis Drake, ‘Circumnavigating the World’, located on Plymouth Hoe. Various photographic processes transform the original image to reflect our current relationship with history. Each process alters the depiction of the monument to visually deconstruct Drake as an explorer, Naval officer, privateer, sea captain, politician and slave trader. The images consider whose narratives the photograph and the monument preserves and whose they suppress.

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