honorable mention
Pawel Trocha united states
title
Golden Pond
Artist among other people who live and work there will soon loose their piece of life as the area is about to get developed into a giant shopping mall.
We must never forget that we came from the mud, water and soil. Our Mother Earth.
The project forced me to reflect upon many social and environmental issues as it uncovered my own spiritual reflection.
I wish it does same for the viewer.
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entry description
The "Golden Pond" project is a series of photographs of Zbigniew Zolkowski aka Joey Baby, who adopted the junkyard into his studio at the back of the Shea Stadium in Willets Point, Queens.Artist among other people who live and work there will soon loose their piece of life as the area is about to get developed into a giant shopping mall.
We must never forget that we came from the mud, water and soil. Our Mother Earth.
The project forced me to reflect upon many social and environmental issues as it uncovered my own spiritual reflection.
I wish it does same for the viewer.
about the photographer
Hailing 45 miles north west of Krakow, Poland, Pawel is a third generation photographer. He has spent most of his life working in the family business helping around their photo studio which his grandparents started in 1936. It is still in operation today. He relocated to New York in 1992 where he has remained on and off since. The photography became more of his passion, being inspired by streets of New York with all of it's complexity which he relentlessly attempts to express in his photographs.back to gallery