AAP Magazine #38 - WOMEN 2024
Women
Annoucing Winners and Merit Awards
Winner's Gallery
Lydia Panas
Mandy, Pink Slip
First Place winner
$500 Cash Prize
United States
Mandy, Pink Slip
Victoria Ushkanova
Bo and her kids
"Coming from both Dutch and Indonesian roots, I feel I never really ‘fit in’ because my blood has different cultures. Living in a yurt, intertwined with all the Elements, me and my children are rooting into the clay in Oosterwold. It is fascinating how connected I feel with this special place."
Oosterwold The Netherlands
Second Place Winner
$300 Cash Prize
Victoria Ushkanova
Netherlands
Bo and her kids
Rachel Nixon
Fondest Love from Mother
I was delighted to come across this fun black and white image of my great-grandmother in the mid-1920s blowing bubbles with two of her three young children. "Fondest Love From Mother" was how Maggie Victoria signed letters to her eldest daughter.
The new bubbles were blown and captured on a hot summer's afternoon in our Vancouver garden. I incorporated elements of sky and land (the map) to convey the transfer of affection down the generations and across continents.
Third Place Winner
$200 Cash Prize
Canada
Fondest Love from Mother
Merit Award's Gallery
Nicola Ducati
Untitled
Izabella Sapuła
I'm enough
From an early age we seek confirmation for our own Existence. We try to fit into the canons of beauty, promoted standards, preferences and values interestingly how different for different eras. Today's canons of beauty in the Baroque would have been a reason for exclusion, interestingly they would also be a reason for exclusion today but in non European cultures. Barque shapes today require courage to show them. Chasing after what the media or authorities dictate, we forget who we really are.
Susanne Middelberg
Anouck
Giandomenico Veneziani
Untitled
Annette LeMay Burke
Christening Day (from the series Memory Building)
In response to my parents’ deaths, I created the series Memory Building. I physically projected my family’s vernacular photographs onto the surfaces of my childhood home, in the same locations that they were originally made, and rephotographed the scene. By fusing photos from the past onto the present-day walls, I unearthed six decades of engrained memories and captured my family’s vanishing presence that once permeated our suburban home—the container for so much of my personal history.
Sheinina Raj
Untitled
Sheinina Raj
United States
Chiara Doveri
Untitled
Chiara Doveri
Germany
Carrie Jones
Untitled
Carrie Jones
Australia
Amy Heller
Ode to Muybridge Multiple
Time/Motion Study Multiple, Fine Art Archival Pigment Photograph.
I love motion & the 19th century locomotion photographs of Etienne Jules-Marey, Eadweard Muybridge & others and started experimenting with moving film stroboscopy method of shooting motion on film.
My new series of reimagined Time/Motion Study Multiples combines the old (analog) with the new (digital). I examine the idea of seeing the unseen: What exists and yet cannot be perceived by the naked eye.
Thibault Gerbaldi
Breakfast in the Hut
In a distant Ethiopian village without electricity, life unfolds under the natural light that guides daily activities, emphasizing a culture where life, work, and socializing predominantly occur between sunrise and sunset.
Early in the morning, we shared breakfast with a local family. I was captivated by how the light entering the hut through a distinctive opening to the outside world illuminated the face of this beautiful Ethiopian woman.
John Martinez
Kaia IV
Taralynn Disher
The Flower Crowns
The R e j a n g dance, meaning “offering” is Bali’s most beautiful and holiest sacrificial dance to entertain the visiting ancestral gods and spirits, and bestow protection and prosperity on earth. For generations, this tradition has been passed down and practiced every six months in hopes of carrying on for many years to come.
JOAQUIN GOMEZ SASTRE
NADJUNDI
A mother breastfeeds her child at the Nadjundi maternity clinic in Togo
Paula Aranoa
Interwoven 2
From this first diptych that, in some way, "came to me," I began to search and find in nature traits of my own femininity. Bonds that interwove us. A preference for simple dressing and the minimal expression of adornment. For what is said in a low voice and textures that slow down the gaze. For the subtle to the extreme as an invitation to sharpen the senses.
Patty Carroll
Atomic Kitchen
The still-life narratives in “Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise” comment on the mania of managing a home. In these studio still-life scenes, domestic objects take over, and the lone woman is often crushed by her own possessions, obsessions and tasks, leading to mishaps and mayhem. I create imaginary, humorous worlds in the studio that critique and satirize claustrophobic expectations of domestic perfection. Trying to find things in the kitchen only made her see stars and explode into chaos.
Patty Carroll
United States
Ron Cooper
Madame Pem
Thimphu, Bhutan
Fira Kwan
Bajau Tribe Woman
This woman is from the Bajau tribe who live on the island of Samporna, Sabah, Malaysia
Fira Kwan
Indonesia
HaPe
The nobility of old age 03
Women are beautiful at any age, and in old age, nobility also comes
Constance Jaeggi
Isabella and Ariana
Riverside, California 2023
Elisa Miller
Untitled
Linda Hollinger
La abuela
Black and white photograph of a Peruvian woman sitting on her front steps after a long days work in the potato fields of Peru.
Aljohara Jeje
/ˈsʌɪləns/ - Cut
Silenced twice:
For people with vaginas, orgasms commonly come from the clitoris, and generally not from penetration alone.
Female Genital Mutilation: the most severe — infibulation — is the removal of the clitoris and parts of the external genitalia followed by stitching together of what remains.
Thank You!
