WINNERS

Sunken City

  • Photographer
    Youssef Elnahas, United Kingdom
  • Prize
    Silver Winner in Technique/Instant

'Sunken City' is a project raising awareness of rising sea levels, which threaten communities around the world including Venice and the Egyptian Nile Delta. It consists of Polaroid photographs taken of landmarks around Venice. These photographers were then submerged for up to two months in water collected from the Nile Delta and the Egyptian Mediterranean. The length of time each Polaroid was kept submerged corresponds to the elevation of the depicted landmark and, by extension, its vulnerability to rising waters. The 'decayed' results were then scanned at high resolution and enlarged.