honorable mention
Bruce Boyd south africa
title
Zero Degrees
I have always wanted to do something with flowers. I grew up in a home surrounded by flower arrangements my mom made. My dad painted them so even the walls were covered with flowers. The challenge was to come up with something original.
With the help of my girlfriend we first experimented photographing the ice-blocks against the light. The results were mediocre. One day when we were done we dropped an ice-block into a nearby swimming pool. The flowers caught the light beautifully and the surrounding blue backdrop completed the picture. I was fascinated b how the clinical nature of the ice and the emotional nature of the flowers contrasted, and a type of beautiful melancholy emerged.
We spent the next six months photographing more than a hundred blocks of ice-arrangements. Most of the time the conditions weren’t perfect or the ice-blocks had developeda cloudyness, which obscured the flowers. After a few months we perfected the process and were able to get together enough material for an exhibition.
0˚C is collaboration between photographer, Bruce Boyd and artist Tharien Smith
In 0˚C we use Ice as a medium to display the beauty of flowers. I find it fascinating that ice can preserve something and at the same time also enhance or distort the beauty of it. For a few fleeting moments we are treated to this preserved beauty, the past encapsulated perfectly, before the ice melts and flowers wilt.
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entry description
The story behind the photos:I have always wanted to do something with flowers. I grew up in a home surrounded by flower arrangements my mom made. My dad painted them so even the walls were covered with flowers. The challenge was to come up with something original.
With the help of my girlfriend we first experimented photographing the ice-blocks against the light. The results were mediocre. One day when we were done we dropped an ice-block into a nearby swimming pool. The flowers caught the light beautifully and the surrounding blue backdrop completed the picture. I was fascinated b how the clinical nature of the ice and the emotional nature of the flowers contrasted, and a type of beautiful melancholy emerged.
We spent the next six months photographing more than a hundred blocks of ice-arrangements. Most of the time the conditions weren’t perfect or the ice-blocks had developeda cloudyness, which obscured the flowers. After a few months we perfected the process and were able to get together enough material for an exhibition.
0˚C is collaboration between photographer, Bruce Boyd and artist Tharien Smith
In 0˚C we use Ice as a medium to display the beauty of flowers. I find it fascinating that ice can preserve something and at the same time also enhance or distort the beauty of it. For a few fleeting moments we are treated to this preserved beauty, the past encapsulated perfectly, before the ice melts and flowers wilt.
about the photographer
Bruce Boyd is a self taught, freelance professional photographer residing in Cape Town, South Africa. He specialises in kids fashion and furniture photography. He is the photographer of 'The wild ones' documenting the feral horses of Botriver/Kleinmond.back to gallery