By now you probably know that Tom Kiefer is the recipient of the 2016 Dotphotozine Award for Excellence in Photography. What you don’t know is how challenging that choice was for the editorial team. Here is an image and comment from the 12 finalists to show the quality of the work we had to choose from. I hope you will visit their websites and engage with these fine photographers.
Brian Dean
“ ‘A Land Between’ explores the edge space of the San Francisco Bay; a space of conflict between humans and nature, the past and future, and the things that often go unseen.”
Michael Cardinali
I’m drawn to a layered landscape of vegetation and architecture that reveals something of the way nature is tended to, managed or neglected.
Photograph: Along The Charles River, Newton, MA, 2013
Website: cardinaliphoto.com
Christos J Palios
From quaint and forgotten to bizarre and outlandish, humanity’s un/familiar leave-behinds naturally beckon my curiosity; these disparate and anachronistic objects ultimately reflect social desires and tell inextricable tales from a bygone area.
Camilo Ramirez
“Arabian Horse and Trailer”
This work explores the entire length of the U.S. Gulf Coast and the way its varied history, economics, environment and culture intertwine to reveal a simultaneous reverence and abuse of its natural resources.
Daniella Rascon
Dragging Across America is the insight to the working world of local and traveling drag performers. Title of Photo: Juleisy Fumar.
Erin Geideman
“Heather eight months pregnant, interior” from the series, I can see right through you. www.eringeideman.com
Harry von Stark
I am inspired by the 1930s industrial art that exhibits the beauty of architectural lines and shapes of the machine age.
Jim Pitt Harris
With my camera I’m a passenger, always looking for fleeting moments and images that reflect the fade of our imperfect memory.
Lissette Schaeffler
By the Hour Series is a transformation into the exploration of the actual spaces and the remnants thereof; these rooms are ultimately a reflection of the human condition.
Rebecca Dietz
“Resurrection Trumpet”
My photographic work explores the carnival and mystical to illustrate personal and collective memories and blur the line between reality and make-believe.
Mark Steigelman
Faced with a 3-hour commute each day I wanted to capture the comings and goings of the people in my rearview mirror.
Teri Havens
“Jack’s Place”, Delta County Colorado, 2013
Nightscapes from a nearly forgotten America.
platinum/palladium print
