BLACK & WHITE AWARDS 2019
DEADLINE: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2019
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ConceptEuropeGoddess by Tatiana Shvetsova-Yaperova
The antique sculpture, Rodin’s statues, paintings are not exclusions. I thought it would make sense to paste stickers right away to keep purity of the photo and to obey the rules. That way it will offend nobody.
3 weeks ago 7 min 1482
ConceptEuropeMy Love as Herbarium by Nino-Ana Samkharadze
This is my life as a herbarium. My memories converted into the dried flowers I kept from people I met throughout my life.
3 weeks ago 5 min 1104
ConceptEuropeStefania Piccioni – Still Life Part XII
White is maybe the most rigorous and psychological color, it seems to purify the surfaces, it’s a color that makes the vacuum merge.
4 weeks ago 10 min 946
ConceptEuropeChrysalis by Carlotta Gambato
Chrysalis, in nature, is the metamorphosis of the larva from its immature stage to the mature one, the imago. During this process, the pupa encloses himself in a silky shroud, defenseless.
4 weeks ago 10 min 1166
ConceptEuropeYou are burning our future by Monica Gorini
I realized this portfolio with the help of my two niece 8 and 10 years old with whom I share the deep love for our Mother Earth but also the concern for Her future.
4 weeks ago 10 min 905
ConceptEuropeMy Flesh’s Nature by Jennifer Orhélys
In “My Flesh’s Nature”, there is an explicitly claimed artistic and romantic approach, for which “beauty comes first” and which leads her to defend a photograph as an Art in its own right, and a tireless commitment to the protection of nature.
1 month ago 12 min 958
ConceptEuropeGeneva Reminiscences by Patrick Jacquet
This unique series merges 160 years of history within one single image. Like normal “before/after” projects, the goal is to start from historical views of Geneva, Switzerland, retrieve the exact original point and take the actual picture.
1 month ago 7 min 868
ConceptEuropeIndustry by Francis Meslet
Silent screams of OBLIVION They all went there very early each morning and we only saw them coming back late each night. The factory, this space and time where every day legions of fathers, brothers, neighbours, friends disappeared…
1 month ago 10 min 1082
AmericaB&WConceptMinimalism by Joseph O’Neill
In this portfolio I draw inspiration from the art of minimalism.By using modern technology I have created photographs that are both true to the artist and the definition of minimalism but convey a modernist approach.
1 month ago 11 min 1000
ConceptEuropeThe photography of Gary Sheridan
The In Dreams series plays with filmic and musical references adding layers of intangible meaning to the scene. The artificially lit room represents 21st century ideals and failures of the western society.
2 months ago 8 min 1713
AmericaConceptPsychological Landscapes by Ana Leal
My work is about perception and the series entitled “ Psychological Landscapes “ intends to show new possibilities for the viewer to observe the world.
2 months ago 11 min 1040
B&WConceptEuropeFeaturedPilot by Mano Svanidze
We live in a boom of scripted TV series where watching TV shows take the face of addiction. It has brought many changes in people’s behavior and their response to others.
2 months ago 8 min 1366
ConceptEuropeFaith by Francis Meslet
Face to FAITH Decades went by before I felt the need to enter a church again. Not that I have any bad memories of them, in fact my memories were pretty good and could be summed up in interminable laughter between friends during the Sunday mass under the red nose of the priest who had placed us there to keep an equally red eye on us.
2 months ago 11 min 1104
AmericaConceptToken by Mike Chaiken
A token is a fraction of the whole. It is not the original, and it will never be the original. It is a sliver, a moment in time, to stand-in for that which is irreplaceable. My art series “Token” was inspired by that definition.
2 months ago 10 min 1670
AmericaB&WConceptDiscarded by Steve Geer
In Chicago, behind the shops and restaurants, there are service alleys. These narrow canyons are lined with dumpsters which are filled each day and emptied each night.
2 months ago 7 min 1343
ConceptEuropeVia Crucis by Massimo Panzavolta
These 14 ruined-by-time doors, suffering, aching, are becoming symbols of a journey – a Via Crucis of the Soul. Doors are seen as diaphragms to hide human miseries, although they are tending to a light of hope.
2 months ago 8 min 929
ConceptEuropeVenice by Chris Anthony
There are two Venices in the world: One is the floating city in Italy, the other is the palm tree-lined California beach. An extraordinary world in flux where the moody tides of fact and fiction converge.
2 months ago 11 min 1681
AmericaConceptFeaturedThree Chapters Of Illumination by Ann George
This series symbolizes a metaphorical journey towards liberated living. The wolf within the work represents allegorically fear and the temptation to be driven by it allowing its control over our lives.
2 months ago 15 min 1452
AmericaB&WConceptThe shadow by Labkhand Olfatmanesh
The first time I experienced a strictly enforced dress code that included completely covering my head with a black scarf was very confusing. I was 7 years old and just starting elementary school.
3 months ago 11 min 1268
ConceptEuropeFeaturedBerlin bhf. by Anna Tihanyi
Berlin bhf. (bahnhof) is a staged series that is rooted in intimate issues of my personal life, through which I could emphasize Berlin being a transitory place, a habitat of the passengers.
3 months ago 12 min 1542
ConceptEuropeMy green room by Svetlana Tarasova
Every time when I run away from home, leaving behind the ideal and carefree world of my childhood, I hope that somewhere there I will become independent, grow up and build my own life.
3 months ago 12 min 1679
ConceptEuropeStill life Part XI by Stefania Piccioni
Still life can be a portal to a personal kind of history. In some ways it’s very intimate: the objects chosen by the Photographer reveal what they consider to be either of social or cultural importance, or of personal value to them.
3 months ago 10 min 1616
ConceptEuropeThe Other Side by Jorge Pérez Higuera
The study of History has been presented as a model based on the narration of facts focused on dates. The Nouvelle Histoire emerged opposing this old model by accepting the challenge of focusing on ordinary individuals and putting a name and a face to those characters who had been cast into oblivion.
3 months ago 12 min 1351
AsiaConceptDark Side of the Mind by Milad Safabakhsh
Dark side of the mind show the power of thoughts. Thoughts are powerful cosmic waves in the universal sea of energy we live in. They are amazing but if your thoughts tend to go stray they can also create problems.
3 months ago 7 min 1264
ConceptEuropeThe Blind Spot by Anna Heydel
Photography is combined with techniques based on the scripture of the blind: with projections, photographic interventions and installations, words and alphabetical eyes are formed from Braille and incorporated into material and photographic reality.
3 months ago 11 min 1480
AmericaConceptQuotidian Life by Daniel Castonguay
Quotidian Life “ Series “ Living in a great city, I was naturally driven to street photography and depicting the quotidian life in its simplest form. I admit being very audacious not necessarily following the rules surrounding this type of photography in the pure sense of its definition.
3 months ago 9 min 1256
AsiaB&WConceptWozu by Dongwook Lee
As seen in the plato’s allegory of the cave, all of us are constantly caught between fictions and realities, battling on the thin line between pleasure and pain.
4 months ago 8 min 1455
AmericaConceptYou can live forever in paradise on earth by Brendon Kahn
Today’s reality is guided by competition alongside the fierce longing to ascend into what many call paradise. But what lies in this pursuit are strangely manufactured channels of both sincerity and unsettling moments that make us question our ultimate wishes.
4 months ago 11 min 1029
ConceptEuropeWelcome Home by Nick Gandano
In this time I have come across some characters, sometimes peculiar, who lived in some of those homes to which I came. At first, their presence made me uncomfortable as they used to interrupt my work.
4 months ago 14 min 1171
AmericaConceptImprints by Charlotta Hauksdottir
The physical space of landscapes can be closely tied to a person’s identity, sense of being, and infused with personal history.
4 months ago 8 min 1365
ConceptEuropeAnthropocene by Athena Carey
Anthropocene – human traces We were here… In this work I am addressing the imprint that humanity is leaving on planet Earth. Through combustion of fossil fuels (oil, gas, coal, etc), herding and agriculture, mining, water diversion, species extinction, deforestation, etc.
4 months ago 9 min 1526
AmericaConceptThe missing forest by Patricia Ackerman
The missing forest It is not the forest of milk of Dylan Thomas nor the mysterious jungle of Emilio Salgari. It is – just and nothing less – a handful of twigs that the time dried and the eye finished to dissect and isolate, until they float in black chamber, turning them into ideograms of an underground pondering.
4 months ago 6 min 1534
ConceptEuropeAbstraction at Source by Caroline de Bertodano
Abstraction is all around us in everyday life. It does not depict reality but lives within reality co- existing alongside us. In the empty space between objects and movement. In the texture of materials and light.
4 months ago 18 min 1476
ConceptEuropeStill Life Part IX by Stefania Piccioni
White is maybe the most rigorous and psychological color, it seems to purify the surfaces, it’s a color that makes the vacuum merge. The empty spaces have slight contrasts of shape as a value.
4 months ago 9 min 1280
ConceptEuropeEmerging Ukrainian Photography: Roman Zakrevsky
This is like a story that author wants to tell with the help of things. A story about someone or someone’s life – which was spied by Roman Zakrevsky. A life is like a frame that consists from different kind of stuff. Stuff like light, lines, person, colors, shapes – stuff that works with your eyes and your perception / imagination.
4 months ago 13 min 1377
AmericaB&WConceptThou Art… Will Give… by Eric T. Kunsman
The body of work “Thou Art..,Will Give…’ is derived from the first Penitentiary in the United States. The Quakers started it because they believed they could reform people by putting them in solitaire for the full sentence and provide them with a Bible to give their Penitence. It was their grand experiment to try and help people. Obviously, it did not work.
5 months ago 17 min 1204
AmericaConceptTrauma by Manuela Thames
Trauma This self-portrait series aims to explore the themes of brokenness, the struggles of loss and grief, the regrets of past decisions and my personal experiences with generational trauma and mental health struggles.
5 months ago 7 min 1672
ConceptEuropeThe fabulous emotion by Dieter Klein
When he discovered Rosalie in the middle of an elderberry bush near the French town of Cognac, something moved very deeply in the photographer’s soul of Dieter Klein.
5 months ago 7 min 1379
AmericaConceptAbstract photography by Olga Merrill
Olga Merrill lived and worked in Russia until March of 2013 when she came to Maine, USA and her life changed. At the end of 2015 her life changed even more – she got a gift – a photo camera and her view of the world became different through lens
5 months ago 10 min 1609
ConceptEuropeIt all is. And nothing by Tomasz Laczny
This series deals with a notion of loss and absence. I photograph and through the act of capturing I isolate people and objects from time and space to show first of all inability photography to capture constant change and movement of reality.
5 months ago 10 min 1220
AmericaConceptImagine Magic by Amber Crabbe
In Imagine Magic I use found light and textures to make visible the dreamscapes hidden in everyday life. I often find myself moving through my daily routine without really observing my environment, particularly when I am at home.
5 months ago 9 min 1072
ConceptEuropeThanatophobia by Valerie Decleer
In reaction to my father’s death, I use the camera to describe my inner emotions. I found myself entangled in a complex web of emotions and reactions. I felt disorientated, as if I had lost my place and purpose in life. I was living in a different world.
5 months ago 9 min 1191
B&WConceptEuropeEscape by Roman Sokolov
“Escape” is devoted to several years of my life when I did not want to deal with my feelings, being not ready to be sincere with myself. I’ve been working as a photographer for a magazine and a real estate company, riding my black Vespa through the city, videotaping a psychedelic metal band, and I was in love.
5 months ago 20 min 1384
AsiaB&WConceptDirection by Shenyi Wang
Direction is a fine art photography project to display the high contrast of light and shadow. In this project, I am looking for the charm of light and shadow.
5 months ago 6 min 1175
ConceptEuropeEpicenter by Michal Konrad
The world is a living and dead matter. Each matter has its central point. The most important place, like the core of the earth. The essence of seeing and understanding the world. Pleasure and wisdom. The focal point is energy, invisible to the eye.
5 months ago 8 min 1091
ConceptEuropeLift not the painted veil by Valerie Decleer
The series ‘Lift not the painted veil’ is about the facade we pretend is true. The truth which remains hidden unless uncovered. We should be seeking a more authentic life.
5 months ago 8 min 1411
B&WConceptEuropeSkin of time by Roberto A. Cabrera
As everybody knows, Photography is the art of ‘writing’ with light. What is written is what light can register: shapes, tones, things and people. In a word, Photography deals with what the philosopher Descartes called ‘extension’.
5 months ago 11 min 1234
B&WConceptEuropeCounterweight, traffic light and palm tree by Angela Sequeira
Counterweight, traffic light and palm tree is the result of a conceptual approach to the environment that surrounds us as an extension of the inner issues of existence.
5 months ago 17 min 1015
ConceptEuropeNines by Jennifer Orhélys
Natural, without complaisance, a heroine, conquering version, dreams of a masterly brush stroke, story to finish in beauty. Games of colours, aesthetic choices initiating a return of the sap and feelings.
5 months ago 13 min 1050
AsiaB&WConceptWanderer by Mushfiqur Rahman
There is nothing more beautiful and liberating than indulging in your (one’s) own pandemonium, nothing more reassuring of one’s existence, both spiritually and physically, and this belief of mine gave birth to this particular series.
5 months ago 13 min 1771
B&WConceptEuropeAfter meaning by Gianluca Ceccarini
Not an ability to store past data but a process of reconstruction that, start from interests and knowledge of the present, trying to reconstruct the meaning of memory.
6 months ago 12 min 1219
ConceptEuropeStill life Part VIII by Stefania Piccioni
Still life can be a portal to a personal kind of history. In some ways it’s very intimate: the objects chosen by the Photographer reveal what they consider to be either of social or cultural importance, or of personal value to them.
6 months ago 10 min 1209
AsiaConceptFL OF LF by Emel Karakozak
In accordance with the visual quality of the universe, when its geometric structure, form, rhytm, color and massic kinesis reduced to body, it reorganizes the senses and attributes meaning to phenomena. The indefinite combination of the information received is the misconception of the colors, the physical dimensions, the continuity of the rhythm.
6 months ago 5 min 1138
AmericaConceptThe infinite universe by Patty Maher
Throughout her work, Yayoi Kusama uses polka dots as a metaphor for giving up personal identity and becoming one with the universe. “Far beyond the reaches of the universe,” she says, “infinity is trying to communicate with us” and it reaches out through her work as an infinite series of polka dots.
6 months ago 7 min 1375
B&WConceptEuropeGray Souls by María Tudela
We live in the best communicated society in history, an intelligent and formed society able to get excited almost without control before a book, a movie or a photograph. But he completely ignores his neighbor. The best communicated society in history.
6 months ago 6 min 1410
B&WConceptEuropeMade of sap and blood by William Guilmain
I always had been fascinated by the concept of specie’s evolution. In this work I wanted to shed light the proximity between the vegetable kingdom and the human body. I chose to use an analogic camera and instantaneous film because of the fragility, oneness, ephemeral and random characteristics of the life.
6 months ago 11 min 1027
AmericaB&WConceptFeaturedMidwest Memoir by Michael Knapstein
There is a certain magic to the American Midwest. Honest. Modest. Understated. Sometimes unappreciated. Often overlooked. I created Midwest Memoir as a way to help others see the American Midwest in a whole new light.
6 months ago 11 min 1826
AmericaConceptHypothesis by Claudio Mortensen
The central idea for Hypothesis Project came to me during a theatrical performance, that I had the opportunity to photograph in 2016. Once the performance started, immediately came to my mind, a memory of part of poem from a Brazilian poet, Carlos Drummond de Andrade.
6 months ago 10 min 1249
AmericaConceptKeep Going by Ana Leal
During 2017 and first semester of 2018 I went through a very difficult period of my life. I was living in the US and had to move back to Brazil due to family issues.
7 months ago 9 min 1192
ConceptEuropeHuis clos by Kathleen Meier
The series Huis clos confronts us with a suggestive confinement. What happens in us when we are faced with a desperate situation ? What do we feel when we no longer have a connection with the outside world ? Disorientation and loss of contact with the outside world put us into a physical and mental isolation and can lead us — in a conscious or subconscious way — to modify our relationship with the external reality.This maze slowly conducts us into a mental illness.
7 months ago 10 min 1114
ConceptEuropeRosa Hacks by Nadine Stijns
Rosa is the caretaker of a family house in the Philippines. She likes to create her own solutions for lacking or broken households items. When lola (grandma in Tagalog), the original inhabitant of the house, was still alive she would ask Rosa to repair and mend broken items instead of replacing them.
7 months ago 7 min 1002
ConceptEuropeI´m free by Alfons Olle Coderch
I‘M FREE …?, of all border interpellative border areas is undoubtedly one of the fundamental and defining questions of our status as beings that we are part of a community and what is more evident is that when formulating this question the answers are quite varied and tendentious
7 months ago 11 min 1053
B&WConceptEuropeFrom A to Y by Bart Vos
Follow the trail of the North Sea Canal, from Amsterdam to Dutch coastal city Ymuiden. Remove dust, rust and smoke and discover sparkling black diamonds on the canal banks.
7 months ago 13 min 1037
ConceptEuropeInland by Nuno Serrão
I miss the feeling of wonder I had when someone asked me: What do you want to be when you grow up? That’s the hardest part of being grown-up. To find new dreams when I know what it feels like when you have to let them go.
7 months ago 6 min 1523
ConceptEuropeThere can be a wolf in this picture by Anna Bernal
After 5 p.m. in Lipakovo, a village in Northern Russia you can only see what your flashlight allows you to. The photographs here are made the way the locals see their village, a tiny circle of light surrounded by pitch black darkness.
7 months ago 11 min 1524
B&WConceptEuropeDmitriy Krakovich : Emerging Ukrainian Photography
Dreams and hidden memories – is what the artist works with. In his photographs the reality – landscapes or various cityscapes – is a bit reconstructed to include an imaginary personage who is missing from actual life or even from actual memory.
8 months ago 11 min 2632
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