3rd place
bronze star award
Karen Lunney
australia 
Photo © Karen Lunney
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Virunga Silverback
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entry description
In projects partially funded by visiting fees, the surviving gorilla groups of the Rwandan section of the Virunga National Park have been better protected from poachers and received ongoing medical assistance, one of the few successful examples of “extreme conservation” in the wild.about the photographer
Karen Lunney is a contemporary photographic artist working out of Brisbane and North Stradbroke Island, Queensland, Australia. Her work investigates the liminal space - a state of transition, a place of possibility, where one thing has ceased and another not yet started. All levels of existence share in this phenomenon. The light of dawn and dusk, the ocean-land interface and the migration of animals all represent forms of liminality. The cultural transitions of peoples forced to westernise, not sure what culture to save into their new modernity and the climatic changes causing paroxysms around the globe both produce uncertainties for the future with consequences for many.back to gallery
