honorable mention
William Goodwin united states
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Pastghanistan
Drive by an ardor to create images of the world that attract, excite and viewers with subjects, colors and passion, the artist has traveled the world (over fifty countries) in search of scenes characterized by near-universal appeal, with an eagle eye for the previously unportrayed.
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entry description
Afghanistan in 1976 - before the Russian invasion, before the Taliban take-over, before the American invasion - was a very different place than it is today. I shot these images in that year on Tri-X film and recently found the negatives and scanned them. No. 6 is a father and daughter I met on a mountain road in Tora Bora. No. 7 is in the tea market at Kandahar. No. 8 is a young guard watching over a parade in a much more innocent time in Kandahar. No. 9 is on Beggar's Row, a side street in Kabul.about the photographer
The artist is bound by blood to salt water and directed by mixed genetics to explore uncommon places and themes from a home base in Colorado. The artist/author graduated from UCLA (biology and English), undertook graduate studies in biochemistry, studied scientific photography at the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, traveled the world, taught high school and university-level sciences, raised two children and founded two businesses.Drive by an ardor to create images of the world that attract, excite and viewers with subjects, colors and passion, the artist has traveled the world (over fifty countries) in search of scenes characterized by near-universal appeal, with an eagle eye for the previously unportrayed.
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