honorable mention
Michel Tremblay canada
title
We Were Here
Then one day I realized that I had spent enough time writing and wanted to discover other things. Photography came into my life. I understood through photography that there was a larger kind of writing, out there, in my own garden, and that I could marvel as much at a fallen leaf or a piece of wood as I did at words. Again, everything was a question of context...
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entry description
Unknown men, women and child who were here in this world a long time ago. their pictures were found in shoeboxes at flea markets. What remains of their entire life is there in a single little photo. To accentuate the passage of time already very present in these images who are all over 100 years old, I placed them under glass with ice on top. Ice that I thinned to bring out certain details. Thus, they seem to look at us beyond time and space. What are they telling us?about the photographer
I come from the world of writing; words were my first passion. Not stories, essays or poetry but the words themselves. The words with the particular power and magic they carry when placed in a context where their multiple meanings can coexist at the same time.Then one day I realized that I had spent enough time writing and wanted to discover other things. Photography came into my life. I understood through photography that there was a larger kind of writing, out there, in my own garden, and that I could marvel as much at a fallen leaf or a piece of wood as I did at words. Again, everything was a question of context...
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