Honorable Mention / 2019 / Fine Art / Landscape

• Photographer
  Sandra Herber, Canada
• Website
  https://www.sandraherber.com/
• Instagram
  @sandraherberphoto

There are literally hundreds of small and medium-size ruins scattered throughout the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico, many of them being slowly reclaimed by the surrounding jungle. This is a continuation of a series I have been working on since 2014 in which I hope to show the splendor of these ruins through infrared photography.

I am an avid, amateur photographer. I work as a librarian in Toronto, Canada but I spend all my free time (and disposable income) photographing in Canada and around the world. . My love of photography started in my teens when my mother gave me her old Pentax Spotmatic and my parents allowed me to set up a black and white darkroom in the basement where I printed a lot of pretty terrible images. Now I enjoy photographing a variety of subjects - particularly remnants of the past - from old, wooden grain elevators on the Canadian Prairies to Mayan ruins in Mexico.

Awards 2019 - Best New Talent of the Year, Prix de la Photographie, Paris
2019 - Gold Medal in Fine Art, Prix de la Photographie, Paris
2019 - Gold Medal in Fine Art, Architecture, Prix de la Photographie, Paris
2018 - Gold Medal, Epson Pano Awards
2017 - 2nd place, International Photography Awards
2016 - Silver Medal, Prix de la Photographie, Paris