honorable mention
Steve Geer united states
title
Chicago Reflections
1. Water over concrete.
2. Wet sand and ice.
3. A marble bench.
4. Water over gravel.
5. River ice.
The images are flipped vertically, transporting them into a “looking glass world” in which the surface texture in superimposed upon a reflected cityscape. We see both tall city buildings and the ground upon which they have been built. The result is something that looks real, and yet not quite right. Something we don’t fully understand, which gets us thinking. Strange though these flipped images seem, apart from minor corrections, no other manipulations have been made in the digital darkroom. Nothing has been added or subtracted. These are documentary images: a reflected Chicago as found.
I started taking commercial photographs in November 2004, and presently have a portfolio of 9000 stock images. My photographs can be found in Fodor’s travel books, National Geographic web pages, U.S. News articles, and in many other books and publications.
In 2014 I became committed to exploring a more expressive type of photography. I bring to my photographic art the imagination of a scientist with a love of experimenting. Since 2014 I have published articles in APOGEE Photo Magazine DODHO Photo Magazine, Adore Noir Magazine, and Monovisions Magazine. My photographs have been exhibited in 1650 Gallery in Los Angeles, Peter Miller Fine Art Photography Gallery in Providence, Morpho Gallery in Chicago, and I have had a featured photographer exhibition at the Perspective Gallery in Evanston. I am currently represented at the Perspective Gallery.
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entry description
In Chicago Reflections the city’s famous architecture is reflected in various horizontal surfaces:1. Water over concrete.
2. Wet sand and ice.
3. A marble bench.
4. Water over gravel.
5. River ice.
The images are flipped vertically, transporting them into a “looking glass world” in which the surface texture in superimposed upon a reflected cityscape. We see both tall city buildings and the ground upon which they have been built. The result is something that looks real, and yet not quite right. Something we don’t fully understand, which gets us thinking. Strange though these flipped images seem, apart from minor corrections, no other manipulations have been made in the digital darkroom. Nothing has been added or subtracted. These are documentary images: a reflected Chicago as found.
about the photographer
I am a photographer and a scientist. Educated in England, I received a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Liverpool in 1980, and have subsequently held scientific positions at CERN (Geneva, Switzerland), College de France (Paris), Harvard University (Associate Professor), and Fermilab (near Chicago).I started taking commercial photographs in November 2004, and presently have a portfolio of 9000 stock images. My photographs can be found in Fodor’s travel books, National Geographic web pages, U.S. News articles, and in many other books and publications.
In 2014 I became committed to exploring a more expressive type of photography. I bring to my photographic art the imagination of a scientist with a love of experimenting. Since 2014 I have published articles in APOGEE Photo Magazine DODHO Photo Magazine, Adore Noir Magazine, and Monovisions Magazine. My photographs have been exhibited in 1650 Gallery in Los Angeles, Peter Miller Fine Art Photography Gallery in Providence, Morpho Gallery in Chicago, and I have had a featured photographer exhibition at the Perspective Gallery in Evanston. I am currently represented at the Perspective Gallery.
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