Amélie Labourdette interrogates the invisible landscape, the blurred zone of concern located below the visible landscape. The ‘Empire of Dust’ series of photographs was taken in the south of Italy, where financial crises and embezzlement have created an architectural aesthetic of incompleteness. Using an “archaeology of the present” she both reflects contemporary history by the yardstick of these unfinished architectures, and involves the viewer’s imagination so that a new view of the world unfolds. In front of these images, we become archaeologists of our time, able to look back at our present and see our future too.
2nd Prize : Hui Zhang, China
The Tang dynasty tomb, three series
3rd Prize : Stephan Zirwes, Germany
Pools
Amelie Labourdette (b. 1974) obtained her degree in Fine Art from the National Fine Art School of Nantes. In her work Labourdette questions and reveal the multi-layered identities and temporalities of landscape.
http://www.amelie-labourdette.com
EXHIBITION
Sony World Photography Awards 2016
From 22 April to 8 May 2016
Somerset House
Strand, London WC2R 1LA
United Kingdom
https://www.somersethouse.org.uk
http://www.worldphoto.org/2016exhibition
