3rd place
bronze star award
Matthew Dols
united arab emirates 
title
Sentimentalist
The society we live in focuses on superficial beauty, and as a photographer I am a participant in this as much as anyone else. But I wanted to make photographs that transcend the societal focus on physical beauty and engage with the nature of who a person is at their essence. What they represent and who they are. Not just what they look like.
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entry description
The series is based in memories, and therefore the ever-evolving techniques mirror the ever-changing nature of memory itself. The memory of any given person in my life is never fully happy or fully sad, but a blending of both. No person is perfect, and no memories are all one sided. These images represent the overall idea of a person. The good and the bad, an entire lifetime of knowing someone in a fraction of a second.The society we live in focuses on superficial beauty, and as a photographer I am a participant in this as much as anyone else. But I wanted to make photographs that transcend the societal focus on physical beauty and engage with the nature of who a person is at their essence. What they represent and who they are. Not just what they look like.
about the photographer
I am an Assistant Professor of New Media in the College of Arts and Creative Enterprises at Zayed University (Dubai and Abu Dhabi campuses). He has his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and a BFA from the Corcoran School of Art and Design. His artwork has been exhibited internationally and is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, Crown Point Press, and the Auchenbach Collection, Palace of Fine Arts.back to gallery
