honorable mention
Tyler Grace australia
title
Going Viral
It was mostly contained to China, and the outside world had no idea that it even existed, however, at the beginning of 2020, cases began appearing beyond China’s borders.
By April, the pandemic had swept across the entire world, and life as we knew it changed forever.
We have been confined to our homes, had to create distance between each other in social situations, our education has been affected, and many of us have lost our jobs due to this worldwide pandemic.
Through the use of self-portraiture, this photographic series explores the some of the different effects of the pandemic, and how humanity has changed during these times.
After a 4 years of photography being a very small hobby and escape from his chronic health issues, Tyler truly began to emerge as an artist in 2016, as he began to take photography seriously, exhibit his work and enter competitions, thus turning his hobby into his passion and his career.
Throughout the years since he has developed his style and made his work darker, more thought-provoking and cinematic in nature, with his images including desaturated tones, heavy contrast and slight textures that give the images a grittier feel than they would have otherwise.
He has been a finalist and won awards such in local, regional and international competitions, such as the MAMA Art Prize and the Chiltern Art Prize.
He also won the Young Regional Artist Scholarship through Create NSW in 2016.
His most recent, and most important achievement was winning the art category and third place overall in Australasia's Top Emerging Photography Awards.
Tyler continues to exhibit his work in group shows all over the world, enter competitions and tour his award winning exhibition "The Chronic Diaries" all around Australia.
Tyler aims to continue creating images that will engage the viewer and make them experience emotions that they never expected to feel from viewing a photograph.
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entry description
On a seemingly normal day in Wuhan, China near the end of the last decade, a deadly new virus that infects humans unknowingly began slowly spreading from person to person.It was mostly contained to China, and the outside world had no idea that it even existed, however, at the beginning of 2020, cases began appearing beyond China’s borders.
By April, the pandemic had swept across the entire world, and life as we knew it changed forever.
We have been confined to our homes, had to create distance between each other in social situations, our education has been affected, and many of us have lost our jobs due to this worldwide pandemic.
Through the use of self-portraiture, this photographic series explores the some of the different effects of the pandemic, and how humanity has changed during these times.
about the photographer
Tyler Grace is a conceptual photographic artist, born in 1993 and based in Albury, Australia, who specializes in creating dark and emotional images that tell stories in an impactful way.After a 4 years of photography being a very small hobby and escape from his chronic health issues, Tyler truly began to emerge as an artist in 2016, as he began to take photography seriously, exhibit his work and enter competitions, thus turning his hobby into his passion and his career.
Throughout the years since he has developed his style and made his work darker, more thought-provoking and cinematic in nature, with his images including desaturated tones, heavy contrast and slight textures that give the images a grittier feel than they would have otherwise.
He has been a finalist and won awards such in local, regional and international competitions, such as the MAMA Art Prize and the Chiltern Art Prize.
He also won the Young Regional Artist Scholarship through Create NSW in 2016.
His most recent, and most important achievement was winning the art category and third place overall in Australasia's Top Emerging Photography Awards.
Tyler continues to exhibit his work in group shows all over the world, enter competitions and tour his award winning exhibition "The Chronic Diaries" all around Australia.
Tyler aims to continue creating images that will engage the viewer and make them experience emotions that they never expected to feel from viewing a photograph.
back to gallery