Ahead of our call for entries closing this month, we foreground a selection of visually compelling and thought-provoking photographers from 10 finalists.
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In her Twilight series, Jones evokes the dialogue between outside and inside, evoking thoughts of exclusion and isolation and returning to the theme of human frailty.
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Echeverria aims to counter the depiction of the African continent and its inhabitants as embodying 鈥渙therness鈥, through a process of collaboration.
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Davies collects stories remembered from couples in long-standing relationships, as to how each met the other, asking them to write down their memories.
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Van de Velde鈥檚 photographs aim to preserve memories; even when there is no one left to recall them. Memento Mori is a story about the fragility of life.
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Approaching聽photography as an art form, Jantzen is interested in states of reality, attempting to make visual the ephemeral nature of sacred, spiritual realms.
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The After All project is a series of photorealistic computer-generated landscape images, examining the 鈥榚lsewhere鈥 spaces, which the viewer longs for, but can never reach.
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Hildebrand鈥檚 photobook, Wild West, investigates the mythic nature of the region by looking closely at the built environment, urban structures and architecture.
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Stars explores Davies鈥 desire to find some balance between a relationship with the wild places of the artist鈥檚 youth and a pervasive sense of disconnection.
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Come away, O鈥欌 explores city-view observatories in Tokyo and considers the importance of the act of viewing the city from above to the urbanite.
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The imagined space of Copse is developed by combining fragments of collected imagery, ranging from photographs and prints in old magazines to painted elements.
Entries for the Aesthetica Art Prize are currently open.聽Categories include: Photographic & Digital Art; Three-Dimensional Design & Sculpture; Painting, Drawing & Mixed Media; and Video Installation & Performance.聽There are two awards for entry: the聽Main Art Prize聽and the聽Emerging Art Prize.聽Prizes include 拢5,000, group exhibition聽and publication in an inspiring anthology.
Credits:
1. All images courtesy of the artists.
