2nd place
silver star award
Vienne Rea
united states 
Photo © Vienne Rea
title
'Alice' (from The CHILDHOOD Series)
The black edge is not an applied border, it is the edge of the film. I keep this on all of my analog film prints so that the viewer can see exactly what I saw when I took the photograph. As a fine-art photographer with over 30 years experience, I feel it is essential to produce images with excellent composition. I believe there is huge difference in skill between those who crop their images to make a great photograph and those who take a great photograph through the lens. With every camera… I compose through the lens. Nearly everyone has a camera or photo device these days but that does not make everyone a photographer. I too have digital cameras and a camera-phone—all of which allow me to take beautiful images. However, I am also “old school”—I shoot film (analog). Back in the day, we didn’t have auto settings or the luxury to shoot and preview the image to see if we got the shot. I love the anxiety of not knowing if I got the shots I hoped for, only to discover upon developing the film whether or not I accomplished the high standard I set for myself. For me, that little black edge not only frames the photograph, it conveys a boundary for skilled composition, and it also has become a personal signature to help identify my work.
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entry description
From my 'CHILDHOOD' series, which portrays dreamlike memories from childhood.The black edge is not an applied border, it is the edge of the film. I keep this on all of my analog film prints so that the viewer can see exactly what I saw when I took the photograph. As a fine-art photographer with over 30 years experience, I feel it is essential to produce images with excellent composition. I believe there is huge difference in skill between those who crop their images to make a great photograph and those who take a great photograph through the lens. With every camera… I compose through the lens. Nearly everyone has a camera or photo device these days but that does not make everyone a photographer. I too have digital cameras and a camera-phone—all of which allow me to take beautiful images. However, I am also “old school”—I shoot film (analog). Back in the day, we didn’t have auto settings or the luxury to shoot and preview the image to see if we got the shot. I love the anxiety of not knowing if I got the shots I hoped for, only to discover upon developing the film whether or not I accomplished the high standard I set for myself. For me, that little black edge not only frames the photograph, it conveys a boundary for skilled composition, and it also has become a personal signature to help identify my work.
about the photographer
Vienne Rea expresses her diverse creativity through multiple visual arts, having received awards in both photography and sculpture. Across creative forms, there is an expressed sensitivity in her work-- a nuance that moves one to feel beyond what their eyes can see. As a fine-art photographer, creating for over 30 years, her portfolio overflows with themed series (such as, the Holocaust, African-American slavery, and Womanhood), in addition to thousands of black & white images of children, nature, female nudes and architecture. Through the use of digital and analog photography, Vienne creates imagery reminiscent of the Pictorialist style of late 19th and early 20th centuries.back to gallery
