The project Greetings From Mars is about space exploration and discovery, but it’s also about our behavior in front of landscapes and how we create pictures that will share our personal story with the world. In every spots, carefully chosen for their similarities with the red planet, the photographer imitated stereotypical tourist poses. It’s interesting to observe the way we act in front of the camera, how we include ourselves in the landscapes, how those landscapes trigger the desire to affirm our presence. And how the way we take pictures exposes the vanity involved in our endless pursuit of self-definition.
2nd Prize : Alejandro Beltran, Venezuela
Beached
3rd Prize : Barbaros Kayan, Turkey
Moving Portraits
Julien Mauve is a photographer creating staged, cinematographic and narrative photography series dealing with human interactions and conditions. Loneliness, nostalgia and the rise of new technologies are recurring themes in his different projects.
http://www.julienmauve.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
