AAP Magazine #30 - Shadows 2023
Shadows
Annoucing Winners and Merit Awards
Winner's Gallery
Anna Biret
Untitled
First Place winner
$500 Cash Prize
France
inframeswetrust
Distortions
Through the use of shadows and distorted figures, I wanted to capture the ways in which our physical appearance can be manipulated and shaped, often to the point where our true selves become unrecognizable. As I explore this theme by photographing the streets, I am reminded of the importance of maintaining our sense of individuality and authenticity in the face of conformity.
Second Place Winner
$300 Cash Prize
United Kingdom
Distortions
Souhayl A
The Eiffel Tower reflection
From serie "Serie Walking Paris With Love"
Third Place Winner
$200 Cash Prize
Souhayl A
Morocco
The Eiffel Tower reflection
Merit Award's Gallery
Leonor Benito de la lastra
Serie "Sombras y siluetas".
"Imágenes en la oscuridad. Tenues seres pasajeros se suceden o se muestran como en un teatro de sombras. Fragmentos que empiezan a desaparecer en cuanto aparecen dejando algo así como la impronta de una silueta como pregunta, de un recuerdo o de un deseo. Deviene entonces una práctica de fotografía desenfocada, a contraluz. Un modo de ver oscuro, antes de que desaparezca, entrevista, ya perdida. Mirada perversa, depredadora de objetos poseídos simbólicamente."
Leonor Benito de la lastra
Spain
Christina Carson
Bear and Sand, Silver Gelatin Print, 2022
A composite of two 35mm negatives. An image from my life presently and one from a decade ago create one image. The process of working with negatives in the darkroom is like extending my reach into the past. One last moment with a loved one. A physical interaction that cannot occur digitally in the same way. Reigniting the presence of people, objects, and landscapes. This body of work is about the passage of time, loss, grief, healing, and growth.
Christina Carson
United States
Jonathan Banks
Shadow across the Red Cross flag
I am the longest volunteering / serving British Red Cross photographer and have covered everything from disaster relief to the work that they do in the community. I saw the shadow falling on the back of the flag and captured this image.
Sonia Melnikova-Raich
Composition With Two Crosses
Ogee Visuals
Floating Like a Butterfly
Snow kiting is among the famous sports that happen over the frozen lakes in Minneapolis. Here, the plotted shadows complete the shape of a butterfly.
Ogee Visuals
United States
Luca Bernardini
Untitled
Nicola Fioravanti
Three.
A game between a silhouette, a shadow and a kite illustration.
Randall Romano
Bay Street Glimmer
Vincenzo Barone
A quiet life
This picture is part of "Shells" : a street photography series about shadows, deep dark contrast and silhouettes.
"Men and women desaturated by the advance of existence and the regression of the will that transforms them into shells.
Curved, floating, immobile, longing for a time that does not pass, interspersed with nothingness, with boredom.
A threat to the observer, despite all this being out in the open.
Or are they just shadows and maybe we should take ourselves less seriously ?"
Ryan Bakerink
Always Darker, Empiter, and Simpler #1
In my project, "Always darker, emptier, and simpler," I explore the idea of photographing the urban landscape, where the subject is mostly not in the image, and instead, the subject’s empty shell transforms the space. Ultimately, "Always darker, emptier, and simpler" is an invitation to explore the beauty, mystery, and complexity of the urban landscape, and to embrace the shadows that lurk within us all.
Frankie Perez
Untitled
Frankie Perez
Canada
Joydeep Deb
LIFE IN LIFE
My eyes through the rounded lens seek life among the defined shapes patterns and geometry of modern world. The moment of magic happens when the silhouette of life and shadow breaks these patterns against light.
Wendy Symons
Sibblings
From my series Art Mama
Two worlds merged into one; life of an artist and motherhood
“artist mama”
Art breaks barriers. Through these images, I am challenging the taboo that loneliness and motherhood can’t be in the same frame. Letting my feelings and emotions speak for themselves.
This has one of my most a vulnerable and intimate projects. It has been a healing experience for me in so many ways.
It depicts a journey in an artistic way through a mother's gaze.
Wendy Symons
Netherlands
Stig Marlon Weston
Playground #1
An outdoor photogram made of the gate to the kindergarden I went to as a child, showing the shadow of the gate cast by the lights from the building that would hit me as I was leaving for the evening
Stig Marlon Weston
Norway
Hsuan Chung
Edge-North Atlantic Ocean #02
I used the square composition of a medium format camera to metaphorically refer to the concept of 'time' in nature that only humans have. I pressed the shutter after a series of precise calculations, and each square perfectly framed the time and scenery of the moment.
Joanne Rojcewicz
Oliver's Room
MK
Dark city 3
George Mayer
Untitled
Holger Goehler
homelights #3
Homelights
Homelights tells about the power of light and its virtuosity. Whether you're in your own four walls, in the office, on the road or in a hotel - the work focuses on the seemingly trivial things that we meet and which surround us in everyday life. I invite you to take a walk with the sun and follow its angle of incidence - in search of stagings.
Only when playing with its counterpart does light become a quick-change artist. Without light there is no shadow, without shadow there is
Mi.Cross
Las Toras II
The Toras belong to the winter masquerades, celebrated since time immemorial in "El Fresno" a small village in Avila (Spain) to remember the initiation ceremonies that marked the passage from childhood to adulthood.
Patricia Beary
From Light into Darkness
Archival Pigment Print
Patricia Beary
United States
Mario Baptista
His own Paths
“Perception of the ephemeral architecture that is formed from the games of light and shadow that sometimes create a kaleidoscopic bias and suggest playful forms. It refers to the constructivist and surrealist thought. The silent observation of how a subtle light that infiltrates labyrinthinely between volumes, redesigns the landscape and the architecture thus creating an enveloping and enigmatic atmosphere.
To slow down the whirlwind of information of the contemporary world." Eder Chiodetto
Mario Baptista
Brazil
Thank You!
