honorable mention
Lola Martinez spain
title
Memories of the Thaw
Ice and snow will soon be literally on our memory, as mysterious fossils and jewels forever gone. Therefore this images pretend to be ancient photography from the times of the Endurance pursuing the Antarctica and failing obstreperously. The only mark of the existence will be this foggy photographs of ice captured like a dream of what could have been.
Her body of work focuses on landscape with and environmental approach.
Her photographic work has been shown in several individual and collective international exhibitions ( Venice,Italy; Porto, Portugal; London, England; Paris, France;...). She has also travelled the world doing various editorials, and published in prestigious magazines focused primarily in environmental topics, published in The Guardian, Time out, Huffingtonpost and most lately with a six day publication in El Pais Newspaper on draught problematics in Spain.
She has also received several grants for art residencies in France and Germany and has been awarded in international photography contests.
She is also a currently a professor in Photography and Film Studies (URJC), and lecturer of landscape photography at the prestigious international school EFTI in Madrid.
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entry description
This series aims to bring and environmentalist approach to the melting of the ice caps as if an ancient story from another civilization. Although it is a series exploring the thaw of several glaciers in Island in 2022, it works visually as a foggy memory of something already from the past.Ice and snow will soon be literally on our memory, as mysterious fossils and jewels forever gone. Therefore this images pretend to be ancient photography from the times of the Endurance pursuing the Antarctica and failing obstreperously. The only mark of the existence will be this foggy photographs of ice captured like a dream of what could have been.
about the photographer
Born in Madrid. Nomad, Alpinist by heart, Artist, Researcher and Professor.Her body of work focuses on landscape with and environmental approach.
Her photographic work has been shown in several individual and collective international exhibitions ( Venice,Italy; Porto, Portugal; London, England; Paris, France;...). She has also travelled the world doing various editorials, and published in prestigious magazines focused primarily in environmental topics, published in The Guardian, Time out, Huffingtonpost and most lately with a six day publication in El Pais Newspaper on draught problematics in Spain.
She has also received several grants for art residencies in France and Germany and has been awarded in international photography contests.
She is also a currently a professor in Photography and Film Studies (URJC), and lecturer of landscape photography at the prestigious international school EFTI in Madrid.
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