Honorable Mention / 2023 / Fine Art / Still Life

• Photographer
  Thomas Schlereth, Germany
• Website
  http://www.thomasschlereth.com
• Instagram
  https://www.instagram.com/thomasschlerethphotography/

A young bumblebee queen, freshly awakened, has settled on the ground, a queen without a court, but she already carries her own colony within her. She is one of the few bumblebees to have survived the winter; she only flies for a few seconds and then rests for longer.
The images show the queen resting between two short flights, the state of the being just awakened - her hunger, her beauty meeting momentary disorientation and confusion, her trembling, her gradual enlightenment.
Stylistic means of implementation are long exposures with fill-in flash, blurring and standard exposures.

- born 1964
- takes pictures since 20 years
- in 2009 turn to artistic photography
- exhibitions and different projects since 2009

Awards Various recognitions and exhibitions, for example:
Wiesbaden Photo Days, solo exhibition
Hoepfner Foundation, group exhibition,
PX3 Gold Medal,
Renaissance Photography Prize London, group exhibition
Hoepfner Foundation, Award Winner 2021
Finalist Yicca Art Prize, Rome, 2022/ 23
Finalist Arte Laguna Prize, Venice, 2022/ 2023