honorable mention
KIp Harris canada
title
South Shore Suite
When you live at the edge of a continent, the elemental force of weather, wind, and wave strips away your sentimentality for nature. You feel the power of the ocean at night as it grinds the granite boulders into sand. After storms, whole clunks of the shore will have disappeared. Hurricanes rip away wharfs and deposit sofas on the beach.
These images are distillations of many walks when the wind blew almost everything away except for the transcendent light. They are intentionally minimal. I did not set out to create seascapes. I’m a street photographer by inclination. This shoreline became the street where I now most frequently wander.
He now lives on the South Shore of Nova Scotia in an 1823 cottage overlooking the St. Margaret’s Bay. He and his wife created Company X Puppets (a highly portable puppet, dance, theater group established to present intimate mixed media theater works).
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entry description
I moved to the South Shore of Nova Scotia twelve years ago and have walked my dogs along the shoreline ever since. There is a special quality of light here. It sinks into your soul and becomes a part of how you view the world. I walk the shore near my house as a flâneur of light watching the infinite variability of the horizon.When you live at the edge of a continent, the elemental force of weather, wind, and wave strips away your sentimentality for nature. You feel the power of the ocean at night as it grinds the granite boulders into sand. After storms, whole clunks of the shore will have disappeared. Hurricanes rip away wharfs and deposit sofas on the beach.
These images are distillations of many walks when the wind blew almost everything away except for the transcendent light. They are intentionally minimal. I did not set out to create seascapes. I’m a street photographer by inclination. This shoreline became the street where I now most frequently wander.
about the photographer
Kip Harris grew up in a small farming community in Idaho. He holds degrees in English literature from Dartmouth College, in humanities from the University of Chicago, and architecture from the University of Utah. He was a principal of FFKR Architecture in Salt Lake City for nearly 30 years, founding its interior design and hospitality studio. In Native American casinos in the Southwest, he introduced the use of Indian art as a major design element of the interiors.He now lives on the South Shore of Nova Scotia in an 1823 cottage overlooking the St. Margaret’s Bay. He and his wife created Company X Puppets (a highly portable puppet, dance, theater group established to present intimate mixed media theater works).
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