WINNERS
Dream State
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PhotographerKelly Ciurej, United States
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PrizeGold Winner in Technique/Film Soup
This work explores moments of self-discovery; the misalignment in thought, psychology and the myth of “paradise”. More often than not, I have found there to be a gap between what we expect and what we get. My focus began in a place deeply embedded in a paradisal stereotype: Hawai’i. Utilizing a range of techniques, my practice shifts between photographing seemingly ordinary landscapes to documenting carefully choreographed, fictional scenes. My interest lies somewhere inside the kaleidoscope of what is true and what is imagined. But as the cliché goes– reality is often stranger than fiction.
