honorable mention
Wayne Schoenfeld united states
title
The Final Judgement
The FINAL JUDGEMENT is a noir inspired series in which the seven deadly sins, life's great temptations, threaten to tease each of us down from the high wire we walk as we traverse our journey through life.
"I'd like to explore a "last judgement" variation. So an image lays out the temptations I specifically have had to rise above/or have secumbded to while directing the rudder of the ship of my life to a final judgement - a subjective judgement moulded by the influence of friends, families, teachers, institutions... " Wayne Schoenfeld
Schoenfeld’s documentary photo books include Brittle Glory: The Face of Change (Turkey and Cuba), Almost Perfect (Vietnam) Awarded Best Book of 2004 by an Independent Publisher, Mission to India written by award winning veteran journalist Rex Weiner, Through This World But Once (Ethiopia), Footprints in the Sand with a foreword by Rev. Mpho Tutu and Everyday Heroes series honoring volunteer doctors from around the world. www.greatcirclebooks.com www.aandi.com/books
In 2008 Schoenfeld produced and directed the international film festival favorite, The Memory Box. Filmed entirely in Ethiopia. The landscape and the people of this exotic land are seen through the eyes of a Chaplinesque jester from Clowns Without Bodrers. The film challenges the cynical predictability of the tragedy of Africa.
In 2010 Schoenfeld’s television series “Everyday Heroes” was honored with two episodes, “Everyday is a Gift’ – filmed in South Africa and “In the Shadow of Shangri-La” – filmed in Nepal recognized as Outstanding TV Series Segments at the My Hero International Film Festival in Los Angeles. www.newdemocracyproductions.com
His latest movie, Liberia: Emerging from the Shadows? launched in September is already awarded at Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood.
Art
“Schoenfeld takes pictures rather than photographs, his carefully orchestrated images appear, at a glance, like classic paintings”. International Herald Tribune, New York Times.
Schoenfeld is best know for his tableau vivants, including The Rape of the Sabine Women and Icons/Iconoclasts which have appeared in many publications including Harpers Bazarr and American Photo Magazine and.exhibited in galleries and museums in the US, Canada, throughout Europe and Asia. Schoenfeld’s images are in the permanent collections of the National Museum of Contemporary Art - Seoul, Cirque du Soleilv- Montrea , National Museum -Complesso del Vittoriano-Rome, County Arts Commission -Santa Barbara. In 2010,Schoenfeld's "Icons/Iconoclasts" Suite traveled 2 years for a European tour.
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entry description
Wayne Schoenfeld presents his most difficult photographic project, confronting his own mortality. Schoenfeld grapples with his/our common destiny and the final judgment, the accounting for the value of one's life. As he has in his earlier tableau vivant photographs, and in the tradition of the grand masters, the immortal questions are asked and answered in lavish photographic metaphors rich in symbolism.The FINAL JUDGEMENT is a noir inspired series in which the seven deadly sins, life's great temptations, threaten to tease each of us down from the high wire we walk as we traverse our journey through life.
"I'd like to explore a "last judgement" variation. So an image lays out the temptations I specifically have had to rise above/or have secumbded to while directing the rudder of the ship of my life to a final judgement - a subjective judgement moulded by the influence of friends, families, teachers, institutions... " Wayne Schoenfeld
about the photographer
Documentary Books and Films:Schoenfeld’s documentary photo books include Brittle Glory: The Face of Change (Turkey and Cuba), Almost Perfect (Vietnam) Awarded Best Book of 2004 by an Independent Publisher, Mission to India written by award winning veteran journalist Rex Weiner, Through This World But Once (Ethiopia), Footprints in the Sand with a foreword by Rev. Mpho Tutu and Everyday Heroes series honoring volunteer doctors from around the world. www.greatcirclebooks.com www.aandi.com/books
In 2008 Schoenfeld produced and directed the international film festival favorite, The Memory Box. Filmed entirely in Ethiopia. The landscape and the people of this exotic land are seen through the eyes of a Chaplinesque jester from Clowns Without Bodrers. The film challenges the cynical predictability of the tragedy of Africa.
In 2010 Schoenfeld’s television series “Everyday Heroes” was honored with two episodes, “Everyday is a Gift’ – filmed in South Africa and “In the Shadow of Shangri-La” – filmed in Nepal recognized as Outstanding TV Series Segments at the My Hero International Film Festival in Los Angeles. www.newdemocracyproductions.com
His latest movie, Liberia: Emerging from the Shadows? launched in September is already awarded at Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood.
Art
“Schoenfeld takes pictures rather than photographs, his carefully orchestrated images appear, at a glance, like classic paintings”. International Herald Tribune, New York Times.
Schoenfeld is best know for his tableau vivants, including The Rape of the Sabine Women and Icons/Iconoclasts which have appeared in many publications including Harpers Bazarr and American Photo Magazine and.exhibited in galleries and museums in the US, Canada, throughout Europe and Asia. Schoenfeld’s images are in the permanent collections of the National Museum of Contemporary Art - Seoul, Cirque du Soleilv- Montrea , National Museum -Complesso del Vittoriano-Rome, County Arts Commission -Santa Barbara. In 2010,Schoenfeld's "Icons/Iconoclasts" Suite traveled 2 years for a European tour.
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