Honorable Mention / 2020 / Nature / Landscape

The harvest of road salt

Here are a piste basher, a tractor and a truck above a saline, harvesting the road salt, creating an abstract aerial photo, with the white of the salt and the bright pink/orange/red colors obtained thanks to the proliferation of a red seaweed: the Dunaliella salina.
From the ground, this scene doesn’t look glamorous at all, however, from a bird’s eye view, it allows us to look deep into Nature, to better understand and appreciate what is going on from another perspective. It has the power to push the boundaries of form and color, to create a confusion between reality and illusion.

Magali CHESNEL is a French artist, painter and self-taught photographer.
She is an award-winning and globally exhibited aerial photographer.

Her ambitions are:

To reveal the world from another perspective: the aerial view, pushing the boundaries between photography and painting to offer a truly unique perspective. With aerial photography, she adds an extra dimension, a degree of confusion which offers incredible views, the "wow factor".

​​To be witness of her time, to take reality by surprise,to anticipate events with news pictures, to inform the public and to raise awareness, with ethics.

Awards Finalist Head On Photo 2018
Finalist Travel Photography Society 2018
Finalist Water - PhotoPlace Gallery
Finalist - Competition for Photographers 2018
Finalist - Bokeh Bokeh Photo 2018
Finalist Shapes - All About Photo Magazine 2018
Finalist - Moscow Foto Awards 2018
Emergent Talent 2018 - The Independent Photographer
3 photos selected by the National Geographic for the Nature Photographer of the year 2017
1st place IPPAwards 2017, Category Trees
Finalist Category Landscape 2017 - The Independent Photographer with an Exhibition in Berlin
1st place Category Color with the Magazine Réponses PHOTO 2017