honorable mention
Kerry Mansfield united states
title
Threshold
noun. The magnitude or intensity that must be exceeded for a certain reaction, phenomenon, result or condition to occur or be manifested.
Extreme sleep deprivation will push you to the edge of sanity’s cliff.
Once you’ve crossed that threshold jumping is the only remaining option.
In early 2016 due to a medication withdrawal I slept 0-3 hours per night for 57 straight days. It was as if someone had flicked the “On” switch in my brain and broke the “Off” option.
I learned that without sleep the “day” never ends. An evening is just a prelude to night that leads to another morning, and the cycle repeats. My world devolved into slow motion while the one around me continued on its natural rhythm.
On day 58, I finally slept four hours straight for the first time in 2 months. By then, I had travelled so far past the threshold of sleep deprivation that the cadence of time became utterly malleable.
A friend shared that she could fall asleep “at the drop of a feather” – a phrase that implies a task completed with ease. In deep hours of the night I would imagine feathers drifting slowly downward never hitting ground
Employing no digital manipulation or double-exposures, the Threshold series illustrates the physical passage of time through movement. The resulting pictures capture feathers falling for a full second through different wavelengths of light while subsequently compressing the variations into a new form.
Her work has been exhibited globally and garnered numerous honors including LensCulture’s Single Image Award, multiple World Photography Organization and IPA Awards, and as a Critical Mass Finalist for three straight years. A host of press and publications, ranging from the PDN Photo Annual to the New York Times LensBlog, have featured several of her bodies of work, including the recent Expired series.
Kerry’s Expired series monograph was just released in fall 2017 and will be accompanied by solo shows and book signings in several major U.S. Cities. Her new series, entitled Threshold, was completed in late spring 2017 and has already been shown in several exhibitions.
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entry description
THRESHOLDnoun. The magnitude or intensity that must be exceeded for a certain reaction, phenomenon, result or condition to occur or be manifested.
Extreme sleep deprivation will push you to the edge of sanity’s cliff.
Once you’ve crossed that threshold jumping is the only remaining option.
In early 2016 due to a medication withdrawal I slept 0-3 hours per night for 57 straight days. It was as if someone had flicked the “On” switch in my brain and broke the “Off” option.
I learned that without sleep the “day” never ends. An evening is just a prelude to night that leads to another morning, and the cycle repeats. My world devolved into slow motion while the one around me continued on its natural rhythm.
On day 58, I finally slept four hours straight for the first time in 2 months. By then, I had travelled so far past the threshold of sleep deprivation that the cadence of time became utterly malleable.
A friend shared that she could fall asleep “at the drop of a feather” – a phrase that implies a task completed with ease. In deep hours of the night I would imagine feathers drifting slowly downward never hitting ground
Employing no digital manipulation or double-exposures, the Threshold series illustrates the physical passage of time through movement. The resulting pictures capture feathers falling for a full second through different wavelengths of light while subsequently compressing the variations into a new form.
about the photographer
Kerry Mansfield is a San Francisco based photographer whose work explores time and how it affects our perceptions of what we see. Born in New Jersey in 1974, Kerry graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Photography from UC Berkeley and did further studies at CCA (California College of the Arts) to refine her sense of space and architecture.Her work has been exhibited globally and garnered numerous honors including LensCulture’s Single Image Award, multiple World Photography Organization and IPA Awards, and as a Critical Mass Finalist for three straight years. A host of press and publications, ranging from the PDN Photo Annual to the New York Times LensBlog, have featured several of her bodies of work, including the recent Expired series.
Kerry’s Expired series monograph was just released in fall 2017 and will be accompanied by solo shows and book signings in several major U.S. Cities. Her new series, entitled Threshold, was completed in late spring 2017 and has already been shown in several exhibitions.
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