honorable mention
Malcolm Sinclair Lobban canada
Photo © Malcolm Sinclair Lobban
title
Oubaitori
Shot with a Hasselblad 500c/m film camera, 80mm lens, using 120 Flash Red film. Final images straight out of the camera with no photo shop.
“The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. ”― Audrey Hepburn
The Photographs
Looking with the eye of an architect, I celebrate the geometry of the human body by expressing the beauty in the shapes and shadows of the female figure. With the use of lighting and movement I try to express accurately in pictures the beauty of a woman in a classical, sensual way, stripped of eroticism and sexuality, by capturing the essence and simple beauty of the woman I am photographing. Playing with natural light, the photographs give the woman’s body a sort of depth, density and texture. Curves which escape and spill out into melodies, or into spiralling arabesques and curved lines, hands and forearms folded over smooth skin – painted by the light.
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entry description
Oubaitori (桜梅桃李) The ancient Japanese idiom, Oubaitori, comes from the kanji for the four trees that bloom in spring: cherry blossoms, plum, peach, and apricot. Each flower blooms in its own time, and the meaning behind the idiom is that we all grow and bloom at our own pace.Shot with a Hasselblad 500c/m film camera, 80mm lens, using 120 Flash Red film. Final images straight out of the camera with no photo shop.
about the photographer
Malcolm is an architect and a fine art photographer based in downtown Toronto with a passion for photography. Malcolm has received a number of awards for his photography including ; the Black & White Zebra Awards, the International Photography Awards (IPA), the Photographer’s Forum Magazine Photography Awards, the PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris awards, and the Budapest Foto Awards. His images have been featured in Black & White Magazine’s Portfolio Awards issues twelve times , the Opera Magazine, and the FotoNorstrum magazine from Barcelona. His images have been exhibited in Paris, Rome, Barcelona, and New York City.“The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. ”― Audrey Hepburn
The Photographs
Looking with the eye of an architect, I celebrate the geometry of the human body by expressing the beauty in the shapes and shadows of the female figure. With the use of lighting and movement I try to express accurately in pictures the beauty of a woman in a classical, sensual way, stripped of eroticism and sexuality, by capturing the essence and simple beauty of the woman I am photographing. Playing with natural light, the photographs give the woman’s body a sort of depth, density and texture. Curves which escape and spill out into melodies, or into spiralling arabesques and curved lines, hands and forearms folded over smooth skin – painted by the light.
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