WINNERS

Light Seeker

  • Photographer
    Hannah Toepp, United States
  • Prize
    Gold Winner in Technique/Film Soup

I use my pinhole cameras as a way to help me calm down from my anxiety. When feeling anxious, I don’t stop opening and closing the shutter of my pinhole cameras until my body and mind calm down. The feeling of my anxiety intensifies or decreases based on what I consume or touch. I create film soup with what I am interacting with from my perfume to hot sauce to cleaning products. The film soup process creates distortion on the film mimicking the way anxiety and calming down make me feel.