honorable mention
Anna Brody
title
Edging, GA
Longing, loneliness and the desire to fill our holes and gaps and close our distances is one of the most compelling forces in life, and the feeling of edging towards the fulfillment of your desire is often better than the fulfillment itself - that is assuming fulfillment itself is even possible. I don’t know if the people in my pictures are the ones who are just as scared of these feelings as I am, or if they are the people who are almost there, almost done looking.
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entry description
Edging, GA doesn’t really exist – it is a place that I am creating with an amalgam of images of my surroundings. It is of this world – challenges are presented here, hearts ache, things and people get old and die – but the edges are filed down to a smooth bevel, corners rounded; time passes slowly here and it exists only at sunrise and sunset. Though Edging, GA is not a real place, it is very close – you and I are almost there, but never will be. You cannot touch your shadow, you cannot make a sunset stay, because nowhere would ever be as good if we actually got there. Edging is more of a mirage than a fantasy: something you can really see, something that looks corporeal from far away – no matter whether you are looking backwards or forwards – but as soon as you get close it disappears.Longing, loneliness and the desire to fill our holes and gaps and close our distances is one of the most compelling forces in life, and the feeling of edging towards the fulfillment of your desire is often better than the fulfillment itself - that is assuming fulfillment itself is even possible. I don’t know if the people in my pictures are the ones who are just as scared of these feelings as I am, or if they are the people who are almost there, almost done looking.
about the photographer
Anna Brody is a photographer and empath currently studying at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia. She began making images through film and darkroom process in 2005 and now brings her compassionate perspective and seemingly bottomless reservoir of chameleonic emotions to her work in medium and large format color film. Her work focuses primarily on longing, loneliness, contentment, cyclical mood shifts, and escapism, as represented by or found within the social and built landscape. Anna is also an editorial assistant at Aint-Bad, an independent publisher of new photographic art. Her work has been shown in exhibitions throughout the U.S., and her series Edging, GA was most recently awarded as a winner of and published in the 2017 PDN Photo Annual. She instagrams a lot, feels feelings a lot, and goes jogging approximately once a month or whenever the mood strikes.back to gallery