All the sculptures were sold to raise funds to help build a new tropical house at Jersey Zoo.
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Dugongs, sharks and a ‘paper nautilus’ — the winning images from the Ocean Photographer of the Year competition
The judges in the Ocean Photographer of the Year 2023 competition have spoken.
This year’s title goes to marine biologist and amateur photographer Jialing Cai.
Her stunning image of a paper nautilus — a type of octopus — floating on a piece of ocean debris came up top among the 8,000 entries submitted.
The competition called on drone, underwater and coastal photographers “to showcase the beauty of our planet” and “dazzle the world”, a spokesperson from Oceanographic Magazine said.
The fourth of its kind since 2020, the competition saw photographers compete across nine categories:
- Ocean Photographer of the Year
- Wildlife Photographer of the Year
- Fine Art Photographer of the Year
- Adventure Photographer of the Year
- Conservation (Hope) Photographer of the Year
- Human Connection Award: People & Planet Ocean
- Young Photographer of the Year
- Ocean Portfolio Award
- Female Fifty Fathoms Award
Here are the stand-outs — and your nature fix — in pictures.
The Ocean Photographer of the Year
The judges were on the hunt for pictures that evoked an emotional connection and embodied a deep sense of storytelling.
Cai’s photograph was taken during a blackwater dive following a volcanic eruption in the Philippines, and she clearly delivered.
The 25-year-old said her professor was her inspiration, telling her: “The deep sea was within my reach, that it would come to me”.
“That realisation was mind-blowing,” Cai said. “It’s why [I’ve become] so obsessed with blackwater photography.”
Providing the backstory for the winning image, Cai said:
“As underwater photographers, we aim to shoot in clear water but this image reminds us that grains of sand, organic matter, or tiny organisms are integral parts of the underwater environment.
“I aim to accept their presence and seek non-disruptive ways to incorporate them into my images.”
A sea anemone, a crab and plankton came together for this work of art to take second place, also shot in the Philippines.
Photographer Andrei Savin said: “It’s insanely interesting to watch the same creatures day after day, and I love to study them as they evolve.”
Coming in third place, was this emotional image of a dying humpback whale.
Photographer Alvaro Herrero Lopez-Beltran captured this image after the whale became entangled in ropes and buoys.
It was a conflicting moment for Lopez-Beltran as he felt “great sadness and hopeless” but he was also “glad … to show the world what we’re doing”.
“The image is a sad metaphor for the slow and painful death that we are causing to our planet and the oceans,” he says.
Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Fine Art Photographer of the Year
Adventure Photographer of the Year
Conservation (Hope) Photographer of the Year
Human Connection Award: People & Planet Ocean
Young Photographer of the Year
Ocean Portfolio Award
Thai photographer Sirachai Arunrugstichai snagged the award with a confronting portfolio that showcases the treatment of deep-sea species.
Here are a few haunting images from the gallery of 10 images.
Female Fifty Fathoms Award
All photography will be showcased at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney.
The exhibition will be open to the public for five months from November 17.
Incredible images from Nature TTL Photographer of the Year 2023 winners
With their ability to capture imaginations and evoke emotions, photos can tell us stories about nature that words alone can’t convey. The winning entries in the Nature TTL Photographer of the Year 2023 competition prove that, as far as nature is concerned, a picture is worth a thousand words.
Celebrating the beauty of the world around us, over 8,000 images were entered into this year’s competition, with nature photographers from all around the world vying for the £1,500 (US$1,840) prize money. In addition to naming the Overall Winner and Young Nature TTL Photographer of the Year, winners were chosen in each of the eight categories: Animal Behavior, Camera Traps, Landscapes, Small World, The Night Sky, Underwater, Urban Wildlife, and Wild Portraits.
Thomas Vijayan/Nature TTL
Thomas Vijayan from Canada won the competition’s Overall Prize for their hauntingly beautiful image, Austfonna Ice Cap, which captures the impact of global warming on the world’s third-largest ice cap. The composition, which is made up of 36 stitched-together images, also took out first prize in the Landscape category.
“This is nature in its most urgent state of decay,” said Audrey Granger, manager of Nature TTL. “The vibrant colors of the towering waterfall are juxtaposed with the reality of its creation. The stark reality is that this image shows global warming’s impact on sea ice, where it is melting at alarming rates.”
Lucy Monckton/Nature TTL
Taking out the Young Nature TTL Photographer of the Year 2023 was the UK’s Lucy Monckton, who braved having hundreds of bees crawling over her to snap her winning entry, House Hunting, showing the process of bee relocation.
“Relocation is a natural process that occurs when a colony becomes too big for its home; the queen leaves with a few of the bees to find another home,” Monckton said.
Simone Baumeister/Nature TTL
Other standouts include the runner-up in the Urban Wildlife category, the surreal-looking Traffic Intersection by Simone Baumeister of Germany.
“I really wanted to do some photography one evening, but without light, this is always difficult,” said Baumeister. “So, I went to a pedestrian bridge that offered a direct view of one of the main traffic intersections in our city. There were many spiders on the railing of this bridge. Using an old analogue lens, I photographed a spire in front of the colorful lights of the city intersection with the many cars.”
Robert Gloeckner/Nature TTL
And another image that made use of the light from traffic signals was Fading Away by Robert Gloeckner of the US, which was the Wild Portraits runner-up. In it, Gloeckner captures the reflection of a great blue heron in water lit by the green of a traffic light. He used intentional camera movement to create a fading perspective.
Florian Ledoux/Nature TTL
Florian Ledoux’s starkly white Seal Hunting captures a polar bear patiently waiting by a seal’s breathing hole for its next meal. Ledoux was the winner of the Animal Behavior category with the image.
“This male polar bear stalked seals at their breathing holes,” Ledoux said. “After they evaded him, he opted to rest, vigilant and patient.”
Bence Mate/Nature TTL
Bence Mate took a unique approach to capturing a wild boar against the immense splendor of the Milky Way in their image Milky Way, winner of The Night Sky category: they used a remote-controlled camera placed inside a fish tank.
“It was lucky that the wild boar stayed unmoved for the moment the picture was taken,” Mate said. “In Hungary, where this composition was captured, the Milky Way is very rarely low enough in the sky to touch the horizon, and this phenomenon occurs only for a few days in the month of August.”
Next year’s Nature TTL Photographer of the Year competition will be open for entries in January 2024. In the meantime, have a browse through our gallery for all of this year’s winning entries.
Source: Nature TTL
Block Carving and Printmaking 2-Week Workshop for 6-9th Grade at Art house 7
Calling all creative minds in grades 6 to 9! Join us at Art House 7 for an engaging 2-week workshop where you’ll dive into the exciting world of linocut printmaking. Similar to woodcut but with a beginner-friendly twist, linocut is a fantastic medium to explore your artistic talents. In this workshop, you’ll have the opportunity
Block Carving and Printmaking 2-Week Workshop for Adults at Art house 7
Discover the art of linocut printmaking in a captivating 2-week workshop at Art House 7! Linocut, akin to woodcut but more accessible, awaits your creative touch. Join us as we delve into this captivating printmaking process, exploring examples and mastering the steps. During the workshop, you’ll carve into a soft block, apply ink, and create
Sculpture By Gwen Marcus Is On View At Cape Cod Museum Of Art
The Cape Cod Museum of Art is hosting the exhibit “Refined Figures: The Sculpture of Gwen Marcus” now through November 19.
Berlin: Erwin Olaf, Fall at Bar Babette – The Eye of Photography Magazine
Archives of October 23, 2014
Erwin Olaf’s works depict the unspoken. His stylized and skilfully quoted visual worlds address taboos, social conflicts, and middle-class narrow-mindedness – themes that he disguises aesthetically in order to unsettle the viewer. Bar Barbette showcases the series Fall (2008), which presents adolescent portraits separated by austerely composed still lifes set in pale gold-coloured interiors of the late 1950s.
Posed before curtains and wallpaper reminiscent of the living rooms of the post-war generation, the adolescents seem out of place. They confront the viewer with contradictory emotions and their as yet undefined corporality, as though they felt entirely unobserved. Coolness and physical strength are just as much on display as vulnerability and apathy; subtle and unbridled eroticism radiates from their flawless young bodies. With a similar atmosphere, the film Le Dernier Cri (2006) slowly progresses towards a discomforting climax that reveals the terror concealed beneath the veil of the bourgeoisie.
EXHIBITION
Ewin Olaf, Fall
Until October 30th 2014
Bar Babette
Karl-Marx-Allee 36
10178 Berlin
Germany
Daily from 6:00pm
An exhibition project by WAGNER + PARTNER with Month of Photography.
http://galerie-wagner-partner.com
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http://www.erwinolaf.com
Wind Cave National Park Celebrates Native Americans’ Day with “Culture Through Art”
HOT SPRINGS, S.D. – How does the way we are raised impact our self-expression? This Native Americans’ Day, Monday, October 9, Wind Cave explores this question within the theme “Culture Through Art: A Celebration of Native American Expression.”
There are multiple activities throughout the day, starting in the Visitor Center auditorium at 9 a.m. with a welcome from park Superintendent Leigh Welling and National Park Service (NPS) Native American Affairs Liaison, Dorothy FireCloud. An enrolled member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, FireCloud is the first person to hold her position within the NPS, working on a national stage to support the agency’s commitment to tribal relations and policy implementation.
At 9:30 a.m., Jhon Goes in Center, an Oglala Lakota metalsmith who played a seminal role in the revival and adaptation of plains metalwork, will give a presentation entitled, “Another America and a Regional Landscape.” This talk highlights the Black Hills as a pivotal cultural and creative landscape for Indigenous peoples.
Following Goes in Center, at 10:30 a.m., award-winning fashion designer Tosa Two Heart will discuss her journey in design and the aesthetic influences of her contemporary clothing designs in a talk titled, “Lakota Storytelling Through Fashion Design.”
The dedication of the sculpture “Cȟaŋgléška-Wakȟaŋ”, or “Sacred Hoop,” will occur at 11:30 a.m. with artist Kelly Looking Horse telling the story of its creation and the philosophical influences of each part. The sculpture is over 20 feet tall and reaches from the lower exhibit level of the park’s Visitors Center up into the skylight.
Activities move outside at 1:30 p.m. with world-renowned hoop dancers Starr Chief Eagle and Jasmine Bell. Chief Eagle and Bell will lead demonstrations, accompanied by a live drum, and invite participation from the audience to help understand the art of the hoop dance.
At 3:30 pm, Emmy Her Many Horses, a Sicangu Lakota author, musician, and actress, will conclude the talks with a presentation entitled, “Classical, Traditional, Ancestral: What Makes it Native?” In this discussion, Her Many Horses confronts her personal experience within a university music program and its tension with her own culturally-based systems of knowing.
Throughout the day, Native American artists will be available at booths, allowing visitors to learn about the continuum of Native American cultural expression and to purchase art from local artists. A food truck with Native American selections will also be available.
The Native Americans’ Day Celebration demonstrations are free and appropriate for all ages. Funding for this event is provided by the Black Hills Parks and Forests Association, a non-profit partner with Wind Cave National Park.
For more information, call the park at (605) 745-4600.
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Gorman Museum of Native American Art opens expanded gallery at UC Davis
This week a major new addition at UC Davis will be unveiled to the public.
The newly expanded Gorman Museum of Native American Art — which is celebrating its 50th year in operation — is one of only a small number of museums in the United States that is focused on telling the story of Native Americans through art. Along with a grand opening ceremony Saturday from noon to 4 p.m., there will be music, dance and other performances, along with works by 20 artists who are all members of California tribes.
CapRadio Insight host Vicki Gonzalez spoke with Veronica Passalacqua, museum executive director and curator, and Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie, museum director and professor in the Department of Native American Studies about the expansion and celebration.
Interview Highlights
This Q&A has been edited for length, clarity and flow.
On the importance and significance of the new gallery expansion
Tsinhnahjinnie: The Gorman started from humble beginnings, but it’s always been strong in what we like to term “visual sovereignty.” And visual sovereignty is basically taking control of one’s own image. That’s a very important part of the Gorman Museum, that artists are free to express themselves and to explain themselves, rather than being interpreted by someone who has no idea about their tribe, or where they come from.
On how long the museum has been looking to expand
Passalacqua: Pretty much from the beginning, we had our eyes on a larger space. But really, it was 10 years ago, at our 40th anniversary party, that donors and sponsors really started pushing the university leadership to help us to get to this place where we are now. With COVID and everything, we’ve been under construction and planning for a solid five years, really, to get the build. The gallery space is about four times as large. The whole building, though, is about 11,000 square feet. So it was really exciting that not only do we have space to present more works, and more galleries, but that we could move all the collections and everything we have into the building.
On how it feels to finally have the grand opening this weekend
Passalacqua: Exhausting (laughing). No, we are so excited, because you know, just being able to show these shows with contemporary work, with the collections, and having it really being able to expand our narrative on what we’re able to share with our visitors. We’re going to have a shop as well that we’re very excited about. We’re partnering with the arboretum on the campus and we even have parking. So all of this is a very exciting time.
On what people can expect this weekend
Passalacqua: When they arrive, certainly from Saturday, for our big party day, they’re going to be met with all kinds of things outside the building before they even get inside. So we’re really excited to have a huge festival that includes artists, vendors and artist-led activities. We have five California Native artists that our visitors can sit down and create with and make things. So Saturday is going to be a big day.
When you come in the museum, the shop will have a number of very contemporary, fun, native sourced materials. Then of course, you walk in the museum. And the first thing you’ll see is the contemporary California Native American show. We have about 20 artists in that exhibition, with pieces that are in the collection or on loan from the artists or on loan from some private collections.
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