Portrait: Honorable Mention 2016 (professional)
The pregnant woman facing her true self by Melanie-Jane Frey (France)
ENTRY DESCRIPTION
The pregnant woman facing hers true self
Wet plate collodion 8x10 tintypes made with a large format camera and a 19th century lens.
From a series "FACING ONE'S TRUE SELF"
AUTHOR
With a degree in History, Art History and Political Science from La Sorbonne university in Paris, Mj has been nevertheless a professional photographer since she was 17. As she isn't n her 20' since a very long time, it has been a lot a lot a lot of years exploring a lot of facettes of the job, from grand reportage to war photographer, politics, corporate or celebrity portraits.
When life became more serious and bitter, through numerous griefs of love ones in a short amount of time follow by a cupple of years of sickness, her photography became more mystical, now a medium for art and a way to run after what makes sense, now a quest for hidden poetry and spirituality, facing and seeking the weirdness outside classical representations that open the vision of life to a whole new level.
She turned to an artist whose work feverly pushes the boundaries of traditional photographic and printmaking practices.
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