WE ARE THRILLED TO ANNOUNCE THAT OUR SUMMER 2014 PHOTO CONTEST WINNER and GRAND PRIZE OF $5,000 Goes to Photographer ELLE PEREZ, for her Series Entitled LAS REINAS! We Would Also Like to Express our Gratitude to Artist and Photographer QUINTAN ANA WIKSWO, Who Served As The Arbiter of the Contest and Has Included a Note On Her Selection Process Below: ********* My decision to stand behind the lens became a profound point of transformation in which I took on a new authority to depict my own realities, instead of being depicted within someone else’s…Each body that we inhabit or portray has different eyes, different ways of seeing. The multiplicity is important. Feminist photography is also a ritual: a creation of time and space for something to be honored, and remembered, and rendered significant, and worthy of discussion. A ritual of claiming vision and revision. A ritual of revolution. – Quintan Ana Wikswo from WOMEN, CAMERAS, BODIES These photographers offer compelling, multivalent responses to the VISION & REVISION concept expressed in my essay. Working inside their communities of origin, these photographers expand the boundaries of sight by using the camera as a tool to create, inhabit and depict their own vision of reality – unexpected, muscular, idiosyncratic, potent, often fantastical, and rooted deeply in the psyche. Their fiercely voiced photographs of the female self disrupt and transcend the tropes of gendered portraiture, the norms of female place, and the power gaze – rather than looking at, they are looking in. - Quintan Ana Wikswo ******** Again, We Are Deeply Appreciative to Photographer Elle Perez and to All of the Contestants Who Entered the SUMMER 2014 PHOTO CONTEST!! We Encourage Each and Every One of You to Enter in Our Next upcoming Contest as Well! MORE DETAILS SOON TO COME! Regards, Theo Westenberger Estate
Posted on: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 21:16:12 +0000
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