honorable mention
Steve Geer united states
title
Chicago through the Looking-Glass
In Chicago through the Looking-Glass the city’s architecture is shown reflected in various horizontal surfaces. The images are flipped vertically, transporting them into the looking glass world in which down-to-earth things -- the pavement, fallen leaves, items of litter – become objects of fantasy floating mysteriously across the image. The result is something that looks real, and yet not quite right, which gets us thinking.
Strange though these images seem, they are single shots. The looking glass world is shown 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 Lewis Carol’s famous children’s book Through the Looking Glass, Alice finds a world that is familiar, and yet not quite right. After reading a poem in the looking-glass world, she notes: `Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas -- only I don't exactly know what they are!’ Lewis Carol is pointing out that something we don’t quite understand gets us thinking.In Chicago through the Looking-Glass the city’s architecture is shown reflected in various horizontal surfaces. The images are flipped vertically, transporting them into the looking glass world in which down-to-earth things -- the pavement, fallen leaves, items of litter – become objects of fantasy floating mysteriously across the image. The result is something that looks real, and yet not quite right, which gets us thinking.
Strange though these images seem, they are single shots. The looking glass world is shown 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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