Still Life with Ghosts
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PrizeHonorable Mention
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PhotographerPamela Hanlan, United States
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I was leafing through an old pictorial book of WWI. Between the pages I found a lock of hair with a bow, a note, four leaf clovers and poems. The note reads "Your eyes are like dimonds (sic), Your hear (sic) is so fine, god bless you my darling, I wish you were mine". And my heart and imagination soared. Someone was loved! I wanted to epitomize the memories and the sorrow. I don't know if the soldier (I believe) came home.I don't know if the lady survived. I don't know if they ever saw each other again. I do know that because of memories saved in a book, their story continues.
It has taken me a while to consider myself a photographer. In my lifetime I have been daughter, sister, wife, mother, empty nester, grandmother, great grandmother, widow and partner. Never in those years was I a photographer. Frankly except for family memories, I didn't have time. Some might and have said that that I am stubborn. I prefer determined. I have also been described as quirky, but only by those who say they love me. I have always seen stories in the world around me but without a camera didn't have a way to tell these stories. Now that I have a camera, the stories are being told
Awards Two Bronze Awards in Rise Awards, finalist and honorable mentions in Urban Photography Awards, Honorable Mentions in 2020 and 2021 International Photo Awards, two honorable mentions in Worldwide Photography Gala Awards, Honorable mentions in Budapest International Foto Awards, Honorable mentions and 3rd place in amateur portrait awards in Monochrome Photo Awards, Short listed Siena Creative Awards, Ist place self portrait in 16th Pollux Awards, Merit Award Fotonostrum Portrait Awards, overall amateur winner Julia Margaret Cameron Awards 2021, second place product, IPA, non professional, hon. mentions and editor's choices IPA, curatorial choice PX3 State of the World, Silver Budapest Awards, official selection London International Creative, published FotoNostrum Magazine. 2024 - Gold and Hon Men.Budapest, 2 silvers PX3, IPA 5 official selections, published Loosenart, finalist Siena.
