Photo London x Hahnemühle People’s Choice Award
In addition to the winner selected by the Hahnemühle Student Award’s independent jury, this year’s competition is open to the public to select the People’s Choice winner. Please choose your favourite shortlisted artists and cast your vote below.
The Hahnemühle Student Award People’s Choice winner will receive a Mastering Digital FineArt Printing session with a master fineart printer at Hahnemühle certified studio Spectrum Photographic.
Voting closes on 19 May, 6pm
1 - Ada Marino
In her series ‘New Moons’, Ada works at the intersection between photography and installation and her practice focuses on past events of her subjects, their memories and traumas that re-emerge and manifest as a form of cynical surrealism. Often, her disturbing imagery attempts to conceptualise the repulsion/attraction effect in an attempt to reappraise notions of ugliness.
2 - Africa Barrero-Alexander
‘My final year project explores and reflects on my experience as a transgender man, and the effect this has had on my life and my relationships with the people around me. Questioning my identity and sense of self over the years has led me to develop a deeply complex relationship with gender. This internal journey I’ve been on since childhood was externalised once I began my social and medical transition, choosing to show the outside world the person I have always known myself to be.’
3 - An Liu
An Liu was shortlisted for her project ‘Weaving the World’, in which she skilfully merges portraiture, documentary, and staged photography with a soft, dreamy visual style. The project begins with a real story that happened to An Liu’s 87-year-old grandmother: she started collecting toy gun bullets left by children in the neighbourhood for 3 years due to the loneliness, isolation, boredom, reflecting a profound search for glimmers of meaning and purpose in life.
4 - Ben Hubert
Another talented photographer to make the shortlist is Ben Hubert for his series ‘Plinthos’. Influenced by Ancient Greek and Renaissance art, the recurring themes of his work include relationships between masculine representation and identity; and photography’s relationship with the male form. Central to Hubert’s practice is a combination of photographic and sculptural works.
5 - Emi O’Connell
And finally, congratulations to Emi O’Connell who was shortlisted for the series ‘and then I ran’. Emi’s work focuses on equality and women’s health with a particular interest in phototherapy and using visual arts as a way to sensitively approach topics of trauma. She uses self-portraiture and re-enactment as well as a research-based practice mixing documentary photography and performative elements throughout her work.