Isolation Flora

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Maureen Ruddy Burkhart, United States
• Date of Photograph
  April, May 2020
• Socials
• Website
  http://www.maureenruddyburkhart.com

My photographic process has never involved still life, but during the pandemic everything changed. While in isolation during the Covid-19 lockdown, we were nevertheless allowed solo nature walks for exercise, so I gathered dried plants like sticks and seeds to bring home to photograph. In two months I went through a series of progressions, but finally ended up placing these dried plants inside a glass vase with a black background to symbolize my own isolation.

• Awards
  2022 Top Hot 100, Your Daily Photograph Paris Photo Prize, 2021 Picfair's Best Photo of 2018, Women Behind the Lens Nominee in Fine Art & People category in Photography Masters Cup Black & White Spider Awards Hipstography Awards Honorable Mention & Viewer's Choice Award US Capitol Christmas Tree Competition 4 Honorable Mentions 2013 Lucie's. Solo exhibitions: Firehouse Art Center, Longmont, Colorado Xiang Sha Wan Art Palace, Inner Mongolia, China Dairy Center for the Arts in Boulder, Colorado.