Honorable Mention / 2022 / Nature / Flowers

• Photographer
  Erin Derby, United States
• Studio
  Erin Derby Photography
• Website
  https://www.erinderby.com/
• Instagram
  @erinderby

This piece is part of an ongoing collage project called "Reimagining Nature". They are a series of large scale photographs where I, working digitally and with mindfulness for lighting and composition, build wholly new imagery using botanicals and natural objects. The results are at once familiar and strikingly unfamiliar. Of the earth yet other worldly. The images are bold, sensual and effervescent with light and color. Amazingly, they are concrete and ethereal.

Erin Derby is a Brooklyn based photographer. With an extensive background in commercial photography, she has worked with a variety of subjects in assignments ranging from interior imagery, to corporate and personal portraiture and more. Her commercial work has also been widely published, including Architectural Digest, Epoca Magazine, and House Beautiful.

Erin's fine art focus is the creation of works that reflects her aesthetic sensibilities and vision. She is influenced by textures, shapes, street art, bold design and the work of artists including Jean-Michel Basquiat and Irving Penn.

Awards 2017 The “Prix de la Photographie, Paris” (P×3) - Bronze Winner - Flowers Category

2018 APA-LA “Off the Clock” - WINNER