honorable mention
Joelle Chmiel switzerland
title
Built Abstraction
The occurrence of such phenomenons or circumstances can be also looked at from a philosophical or socio-cultural point of view and is also commonly utilized in journalism, where an information itself, torn from context, can be provided in a way, where the recipient of this specific information is being inevitably directed into the one way or the other, or even "manipulated", depending on the intentions of the information-provider, but preeminently due to the missing context, in addition to the inter- individual imagination.
Vice versa, the viewer or recipient himself, depending on his personal perspective, has the power of exerting influence for its part. As Wayne Dire said: "If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."
In 2014 she got a Leica camera as a gift, which was love at first sight. She was fortunate to attend a private workshop in Paris with Magnum photographer Patrick Zachmann, which helped define her path as a photographer. She also studied with Magnum photographer Thomas Dworzak at his Masterclass which was an essential experience in her approach to photography.
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entry description
The series "Built Abstraction" contains classical photographs of architectures (Built structures) where the composition was aiming to create an optical interplay between fiction and reality, resulting in a visual transformation of facts from the viewers perspective.The occurrence of such phenomenons or circumstances can be also looked at from a philosophical or socio-cultural point of view and is also commonly utilized in journalism, where an information itself, torn from context, can be provided in a way, where the recipient of this specific information is being inevitably directed into the one way or the other, or even "manipulated", depending on the intentions of the information-provider, but preeminently due to the missing context, in addition to the inter- individual imagination.
Vice versa, the viewer or recipient himself, depending on his personal perspective, has the power of exerting influence for its part. As Wayne Dire said: "If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."
about the photographer
Joelle Chmiel, born and raised in Zürich, Switzerland, is a self-educated Swiss photographer. She is a visual story-teller, seeking the extraordinary in daily life, that most of us would probably miss.In 2014 she got a Leica camera as a gift, which was love at first sight. She was fortunate to attend a private workshop in Paris with Magnum photographer Patrick Zachmann, which helped define her path as a photographer. She also studied with Magnum photographer Thomas Dworzak at his Masterclass which was an essential experience in her approach to photography.
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