honorable mention
Michael Potts united states
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Dreamtime
He currently works as a nuclear medicine technologist mainly so he has someone to talk to. This lets him photograph on the side without having to live on ramen and sleep on friends’ couches. The rest of his time is devoted to various cats. They don’t like ramen, but they do like couches.
Mike was baptized in 2019 and wonders if he still has that “new soul” smell. His ultimate dream would be to visit Mars (and ideally make the trip back too). In the meantime he keeps making pictures. Children are his favorite subjects because he doesn’t have to direct them, they haven’t had the creativity stomped out of them, and they don’t have phones so they can’t ask him if the pictures are ready yet.
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entry description
In my underwater work I seek moments of sublime peace (that fine line where the conscious and subconscious meet) and the creative chaotic (where energy is released that fine line is broken and the potential becomes kinetic). I see the water as a metaphor for a dream medium and I try to meet my subjects on that boundary and hope that we are able to take the viewer from tranquil peace to a burst of creation and back again.about the photographer
Mike grew up in Pennsylvania and in 2005 moved to Arizona where he’s rarely cold and doesn’t have to shovel snow. He graduated from Bucknell University with a major in English and a minor in Chemistry and still wonders what to do with them.He currently works as a nuclear medicine technologist mainly so he has someone to talk to. This lets him photograph on the side without having to live on ramen and sleep on friends’ couches. The rest of his time is devoted to various cats. They don’t like ramen, but they do like couches.
Mike was baptized in 2019 and wonders if he still has that “new soul” smell. His ultimate dream would be to visit Mars (and ideally make the trip back too). In the meantime he keeps making pictures. Children are his favorite subjects because he doesn’t have to direct them, they haven’t had the creativity stomped out of them, and they don’t have phones so they can’t ask him if the pictures are ready yet.
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