AAP Magazine #23 - WOMEN 2021
Women
Announcing Winners and Merit Awards
Winner's Gallery
Susanne Middelberg
Susanne
dancer , actress, photographer_
In my portraits I am looking for honesty and vulnerability. I believe that vulnerability makes us nicer human beings and that this makes the world a little more friendly and more understanding. People who show themselves vulnerable give the other the confidence that they themselves may be who they are.
I am most fascinated when I can see opposite qualities of a person at the same moment.
First Place winner
$500 Cash Prize
Netherlands
Susanne
Aline Smithson
Arrangement in Green and Black #10, Portrait of the Photographer'sMother
This series had serendipitous beginnings. I found a print of Whistler’s painting, and it started me thinking about the genre of portraiture, the strong compositional relationships going on within Whistler’s painting, and the evocative nature of unassuming details.
The series is printed in silver gelatin yet becomes richer with the treatment of hand painting. My patient 85-year-old mother posed in over 20 ensembles, but unfortunately passed away before seeing the finished series.
Second Place Winner
$300 Cash Prize
United States
Arrangement in Green and Black #10, Portrait of the Photographer'sMother
Maura Allen
Ranch Sage
Third Place Winner
$200 Cash Prize
Maura Allen
United States
Ranch Sage
Merit Award's Gallery
Aaron Deppe
Girls Squad
Anna Laza
"Metaphysical Body Landscapes” №2
Part 2:
All being is something whole, indivisible. Earth, sky, plants, fruits, mountains, rivers, men, women, day, night- all merged together and flows into each other. This process is infinite and harmonious. Men came from earth, lives on earth and will return to earth. And landscapes of earth is seen in body curves.
Anna Laza
Cyprus
Lenka Klicperová
ISIS Mother
When the Kurdish troops liberated the capital of Caliphate Raqqa, I finally met them - women who in a special way frightened and fascinated the world. Women of Islamic State fighters, the wives of the most dangerous men on this planet. They crossed the front lines, some died also with their children. Some of them survived. They were detained in camp Ain Issa near Raqqa, Syrias. Surrounded by their enemies – Kurds.
Andrea Torrei
Lost in her thoughts
Dire Dawa, Ethiopia 2019
Anne Berry
Reindeer Moss Crown
Cumberland Island, 2019, from Land of the Yaupon Holly
Joan-Ramon Manchado
At the Bus Stop (Bangkok)
Toned cyanotype, 30 x 37 cm
Prescott Moore Lassman
Black Goggles
Women often work hard in ways that force them to sacrifice their own identity and aspirations, particularly for family and children. This photograph depicts the strength of women (via the strong back and arms full of children) but also the loss of individual identity and "facelessness" that often comes with motherhood.
Silvia Alessi
Makiko Sugawa
Makiko Sugawa is an artist, an illustrator. Because of a cancer, she lost her left leg completely, well above the knee. And in fact, her prosthesis must be tied to her waist with a belt. She knows that clothes and fashion can have a big impact on how a woman feels about herself. So if a woman with a disability can be "stylish", other girls in the same condition can follow her example. This conviction led her to parade on the catwalks using Fumio Usui's splendid creations.
Julie Fowells
Julie T's feet
Julie Tolentino is a modern dancer/performance artist. These are her feet.
Francis A Willey
Shima
35MM film Photograph
Francis A Willey
Canada
Jo Ann Chaus
Green Dress
Jo Ann Chaus
United States
Giuseppe Cardoni
Women are still beautiful
Tribute to Gary Winogrand
Sandra Klein
Creative Growth
I consider this diptych a portrait of how I create my imagery. I begin with a spark of an idea and obsessively develop it.
Sandra Klein
United States
Vicky Martin
Ruby Red
Ruby Red is taken from the series Selfhood, The female characters in this series search for a sense of independent identity crafted through outward appearance and signalled through dress and posture, challenging the traditional assessment of character made via eye contact. Each image contains its own distinctive narrative, separate from the other photographs in the series, connected only through the motif of disguised eyes.
Pat Rose
Sophia with Roses
Studio portrait with natural light.
B Jane Levine
Untitled
Marna Goodrich Clarke
Hand on Chest
Marsha Guggenheim
Self Portrait_8
From my series, "Without a Map"
How does one move through life with the scars of the past? When I was ten, my mother died unexpectedly from a heart attack. I couldn’t understand where she went or when she would return. Just as I began to comprehend this loss, my father died. I was without support from my family and community. I was lost.
Frank Herfort
Babushka
Babushka Aleksandra, at home of her daughter Elena at a village between Saint Petersburg and Moscow, near the city of Bologoye. Aleksandra warms up and wears the famous or typical Russian Valenki, felt boots.
Lisen Stibeck
Untitled
Lisen Stibeck
Sweden
Monica Testa
HABITO 19. Sister Maria Grazia
Constance Jaeggi
Star
Colette performs a Star during a training session at The Devils Horsemen
Thank You!
