Nikon Film and Photo Contest 2024-2025 Photo Competition Photo Story Category
Special Encouragement Award
American Dreaming
Jacek Gąsiorowski
Poland
Story
Empty beaches. Semi-oneiric, in a warm sunset. Old people and the slow disappearance of their presence. Dignified, happy, sentimental. A painless, happy and gentle recollection of their life.
Comment
This project came to life spontaneously in my heart, and I hold tremendous affection and confidence in it. From the very first moments of perceiving this atmosphere — stylistically drawing on the myth of the American West — through the process of developing the series with successive visits and sessions, I felt a growing conviction that I had discovered a precise and atmospheric photographic language with my ideas and images. This award represents the culmination of my 20-year journey in analog art photography.
*The works and comments that have been selected are expressions of views and opinions of the creators and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the organizer.
American Dreaming
Jacek Gąsiorowski
Poland
Story
Empty beaches. Semi-oneiric, in a warm sunset. Old people and the slow disappearance of their presence. Dignified, happy, sentimental. A painless, happy and gentle recollection of their life.
Comment
This project came to life spontaneously in my heart, and I hold tremendous affection and confidence in it. From the very first moments of perceiving this atmosphere — stylistically drawing on the myth of the American West — through the process of developing the series with successive visits and sessions, I felt a growing conviction that I had discovered a precise and atmospheric photographic language with my ideas and images.
This award represents the culmination of my 20-year journey in analog art photography.
*The works and comments that have been selected are expressions of views and opinions of the creators and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the organizer.