/ 2025 / Fine Art / People

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Allison Plass, United States
• Website
  http://allisonplass.com
• Instagram
  @aplass

In my series, Boys in the Garden, I situate my husband and sons within imaginary frames of possibility. What does it feel like for those who identify as boys and men to have only been given one story? In the space of the garden, old ideas of patriarchy give way to more generative forces, which complicate notions of gender and identity, individualism and connectedness. Inspired by art history, fairytale, and myth, I reimagine cultural mythologies of the past while exploring new stories as they emerge. I come to see this journey as my own, a hybrid recognition of what it means to be human.