Conflict Certainly Is Not a Game
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PrizeShortlist
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PhotographerPamela Hanlan, United States
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CategoryAmericas
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The state of the world has certainly been on my mind this past winter. I watch from afar and I can only imagine the pain of the reality. US foreign policy has in the past often changed the course of history. And we and other nations have/do lose loved ones in the conflicts "over there". We in the US seem safe on our home soil (for now). We see it all play out on our screens and controlled from afar. The reality is tangible for the men and women fighting the battles and the families who spend every day worrying or mourning their loved ones. To them war certainly isn't a game.
It has taken me a while to consider myself a photographer. In my lifetime I have been daughter, sister, wife, mother, empty nester, grandmother, great grandmother, widow and partner. Never in those years was I a photographer. Frankly except for family memories, I didn't have time. Some might and have said that that I am stubborn. I prefer determined. I have also been described as quirky, but only by those who say they love me. I have always seen stories in the world around me but without a camera didn't have a way to tell these stories. Now that I have a camera, the stories are being told
Awards Two Bronze Awards in Rise Awards, finalist and honorable mentions in Urban Photography Awards, Honorable Mentions in 2020 and 2021 International Photo Awards, two honorable mentions in Worldwide Photography Gala Awards, Honorable mentions in Budapest International Foto Awards, Honorable mentions and 3rd place in amateur portrait awards in Monochrome Photo Awards, Short listed Siena Creative Awards, Ist place self portrait in 16th Pollux Awards, Merit Award Fotonostrum Portrait Awards, overall amateur winner Julia Margaret Cameron Awards 2021, second place product, IPA, non professional, hon. mentions and editor's choices IPA, curatorial choice PX3 State of the World, Silver Budapest Awards, official selection London International Creative, published FotoNostrum Magazine. 2024 - Gold and Hon Men.Budapest, 2 silvers PX3, IPA 5 official selections, published Loosenart, finalist Siena.
