2nd place
silver star award
Amélie Berton
belgium
title
In and Out of Woods
In the series “In and Out of Woods”, French photographer Amélie Berton explores the healing power of nature.
Going deeper and deeper into the woods we discover ourselves released from constraints, we can focus on the beauty hidden in simple moments and emotions.
The forest becomes a place to meditate.
We discover surreal characters wandering in the woods, they are part of his nature, inviting the viewers to a walk into their dreams and fantasies.
She started photography to document and capture important events and personal moments. She is a portrait photographer, fascinated by human shapes and feelings.
Feeling the urge to materialize her thoughts she decided to explore staged portraiture thus creating visual concepts. She discovered photography wasn’t meant only to document the outside world, but also to express a more intimate inner world.
She creates her images carefully posing models or herself to express the emotion, from joy to sorrow, she wants to portray. She tells a story within the frame of a photograph, questioning the difference between dream and reality.
In her work she tends to blur the borders between painting and photography with the use of surreal elements. Applying strokes of light and bold colors over the images give them a painterly quality and allows her to control every details of the final result.
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entry description
In the series “In and Out of Woods”, French photographer Amélie Berton explores the healing power of nature.
Going deeper and deeper into the woods we discover ourselves released from constraints, we can focus on the beauty hidden in simple moments and emotions.
The forest becomes a place to meditate.
We discover surreal characters wandering in the woods, they are part of his nature, inviting the viewers to a walk into their dreams and fantasies.
about the photographer
Amélie Berton is a French art lover, a self-taught photographer who resides in Brussels, where she can enjoy an inspiring multicultural environment.She started photography to document and capture important events and personal moments. She is a portrait photographer, fascinated by human shapes and feelings.
Feeling the urge to materialize her thoughts she decided to explore staged portraiture thus creating visual concepts. She discovered photography wasn’t meant only to document the outside world, but also to express a more intimate inner world.
She creates her images carefully posing models or herself to express the emotion, from joy to sorrow, she wants to portray. She tells a story within the frame of a photograph, questioning the difference between dream and reality.
In her work she tends to blur the borders between painting and photography with the use of surreal elements. Applying strokes of light and bold colors over the images give them a painterly quality and allows her to control every details of the final result.
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