honorable mention
ANDY BARNHAM united kingdom
title
WE ARE HERE
Andy is a child of the end of both British and French empires; born in Hong Kong close to the end of British colonial rule he was in the territory for the Handover from the UK to China. His mother and her family fled from Vietnam, formerly French Indochina, at the end of the Vietnam War, resettling in the USA.
A former British Army officer, who served in Iraq, Cyprus and Afghanistan, Andy spent a decade in editorial photography, published in the BBC, the Financial Times, the Guardian, The Times, The Art Newspaper, The New York Times and internationally in titles in the USA, China and Japan.
Following COVID and the re-examining of his photographic raison d’etre, Andy decided to shift his photographic practice to using portraiture for highlighting social and political issues; his project ‘We Are Here, Because You Were There: Afghan Interpreters in the UK’ achieved recognition in Prix de la Photographie, Paris, the Monochrome Awards, the ND Awards, the Tokyo International Foto Awards and was shortlisted for the Prix Pictet (Human Cycle). The project has been exhibited throughout the UK.
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entry description
The project documents the experiences of Afghan interpreters who were resettled to the U.K. through photo portraiture. The portraits have been edited in a manner to help anonymise the interpreters who have been at risk and who, potentially, have family in Afghanistan still under threat. The individual portraits are a composite of up to a dozen frames which have each been blurred or pixelated and then overlaid to present a final portrait. This process can also be seen as inflicting trauma on the portraits, in acknowledgement of their experiences.about the photographer
Andy Barnham is a mixed race, Chinese and English, photographer and son of a refugee born in Hong Kong and educated in the UK.Andy is a child of the end of both British and French empires; born in Hong Kong close to the end of British colonial rule he was in the territory for the Handover from the UK to China. His mother and her family fled from Vietnam, formerly French Indochina, at the end of the Vietnam War, resettling in the USA.
A former British Army officer, who served in Iraq, Cyprus and Afghanistan, Andy spent a decade in editorial photography, published in the BBC, the Financial Times, the Guardian, The Times, The Art Newspaper, The New York Times and internationally in titles in the USA, China and Japan.
Following COVID and the re-examining of his photographic raison d’etre, Andy decided to shift his photographic practice to using portraiture for highlighting social and political issues; his project ‘We Are Here, Because You Were There: Afghan Interpreters in the UK’ achieved recognition in Prix de la Photographie, Paris, the Monochrome Awards, the ND Awards, the Tokyo International Foto Awards and was shortlisted for the Prix Pictet (Human Cycle). The project has been exhibited throughout the UK.
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