honorable mention
Latour Bernadette belgium
Photo © Latour Bernadette
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Knokke
I stayed for a while watching them play. The characters in the background have joined the young girls in a silent and precise ballet. It was just magical.
Specializing in industrial and commercial buildings, she is immersed in the business environment, rubs shoulders with developers and financiers, gives pride of place to performance and profitability and over the last five years loses the very essence of her art: human.
Following cancer in 2014 and burnout in 2016, she ended her career as an architect in 2018. This difficult decision allows her to bounce back and turn to several artistical projects that carry meaning and humanity.
She discovered digital photography. Her favorite subjects are essentially industrial buildings which move her and she never stops trying to convey these emotions. His shots are frontal — like architectural elevations. She made herself known, published in a specialized magazine and won various prizes including the first prize for “Interior Architecture” IPA Awards 2023. This discipline becomes his main form of expression.
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entry description
I took this photo last March at the end of the afternoon (around 5 p.m.) on the beach of Knokke at the Belgian coast. Since our North Sea is oriented to the North and I take this photo to the West (Zeebrugge in the background) the characters are therefore naturally against the light. As luck would have it, that afternoon I came across a happy group of young girls - of Jewish origin, no doubt - all dressed in black - from head to toe - which helps to accentuate the backlight and this effect of dark silhouettes.I stayed for a while watching them play. The characters in the background have joined the young girls in a silent and precise ballet. It was just magical.
about the photographer
Born in Belgium in 1969, to a father who was a steelworker and a mother who was a piano teacher, Bernadette Latour, who graduated with a master's degree in architecture, worked for twenty-five years as an architect and project manager in various design offices. — first in Montreal and New York before settling in Belgium.Specializing in industrial and commercial buildings, she is immersed in the business environment, rubs shoulders with developers and financiers, gives pride of place to performance and profitability and over the last five years loses the very essence of her art: human.
Following cancer in 2014 and burnout in 2016, she ended her career as an architect in 2018. This difficult decision allows her to bounce back and turn to several artistical projects that carry meaning and humanity.
She discovered digital photography. Her favorite subjects are essentially industrial buildings which move her and she never stops trying to convey these emotions. His shots are frontal — like architectural elevations. She made herself known, published in a specialized magazine and won various prizes including the first prize for “Interior Architecture” IPA Awards 2023. This discipline becomes his main form of expression.
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