honorable mention
Shai Apeloig sweden
title
Right under my nose
This kind of conscious, mindful shooting is still my philosophy today. Slow-photo is also an integral part of my multi-exposure work inspired by the expressionist movement. The result is not immediate. Images will slowly be rediscovered during the post-editing process. My intention is to transmit my subjective experience to the viewer. I studied photography at the NB Haifa School of Design 1994-95.
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entry description
We are flooded daily with fantastic photos from beautiful places around the world. I wonder if this visual overload makes me miss the beauty that’s under my nose? With this question in mind I decided to challenge myself go no further than 10 minutes drive from my house and see what I may find. Since then, the project has been a way for me to constantly rediscover the place I live for the past twenty years. These images are a product of this project and taken 5 minutes from home. The long exposure light trails were made in camera.about the photographer
I started shooting in 1993 when I went backpacking with a friend in South America for a year. That trip changed my life and eventually led me from Israel to Sweden where I live since 1996. While traveling I didn't want to carry all the photocopies on my back so I sent the negatives home to be developed. As a result, I did not see my photos until about a year later. That's certainly a different creative process than the one we are used to today within digital photography, where the result is instant. At that point, I learned to wait for the right moment and imagine the image in my head before pressing the shutter. This way the images remained in my mind until this day.This kind of conscious, mindful shooting is still my philosophy today. Slow-photo is also an integral part of my multi-exposure work inspired by the expressionist movement. The result is not immediate. Images will slowly be rediscovered during the post-editing process. My intention is to transmit my subjective experience to the viewer. I studied photography at the NB Haifa School of Design 1994-95.
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