honorable mention
Richard Cohen united states
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Bilge Drains
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entry description
For over a year now, I have been making photographs of boat hulls sitting in their cradles in boatyards. The waterline - that border that floats between air and water - is often worn and encrusted with the evidence of the past season(s), and I have imagined landscape imagery encoded by that residue. The waterline is sometimes interrupted by drains and scupper holes from which the outflow leaves traces of various corrosives, rust, and pollutants disgorged from within. These images provide inescapable evidence of the downside of the sailor’s voyage on the sea. At the same time, the images allow the mind’s eye to be transported to new places, much like the boats on which they are found.about the photographer
Richard Alan Cohen lives and works in the South End of Boston where he still pursues his college double major in art and science. He graduated from Bowdoin College and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His lifetime interest in art derives from his mother, an art teacher and painter, and his father, a house designer and builder. His cityscape photography exposes the manipulation of urban inhabitants by contemporary design and style. Natural features that organize otherwise chaotic surroundings are emphasized in his landscapes.back to gallery