1st place
gold star award
Daniel Huiting
united states
title
Dear Leader
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entry description
My current body, titled "Dear Leader," of work deals with my feelings on the current political climate in America, and the themes within the lives of its inhabitants. They are allegories of abandoned young mothers in frozen apartments, rich men who would sooner destroy their own money than see it given to the poor, and homeless children who still dare to dream. I work on 8x10 color film. My images are all created using practical effects, there are no photoshop composites. Everything in the image was photographed at one time. The most I do is remove wires suspending props. I can remove things from the photo, but I never add. That's my rule.about the photographer
I am a 38 year-old working Director and Cinematographer in Minneapolis, MN, USA. I make my living making music videos. About a year ago I found tremendous freedom in creating photographs as personal passion projects from the ideas haunting my brain. I began to create in-camera conceptual imagery, working on 8x10 color film. I take pride in the fact that unlike other digital art created through extensive compositing in Photoshop, all of the elements in my images actually exist and were photographed within the scene. Everything you see in the photos was actually there. At most I may remove a wires suspending props, but I don't add anything that wasn't actually happening in that one scene. That's my rule for myself. I can take away elements, but I cannot add elements to the picture. My current body, titled "Dear Leader," of work deals with my feelings on the current political climate in America, and the themes within the lives of its inhabitants. They are allegories of abandoned young mothers in frozen apartments, rich men who would sooner destroy their own money than see it given to the poor, and homeless children who still dare to dream. The reality of this work is it costs me a significant amount of money to create each image, so my work is slow going. I am not rich. My hope is to get funding, grants, and revenue from contests in order to allow me to finish this body of work.back to gallery