Marion under the Moon

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Lawrence Russ, United States
• Date of Photograph
  2012-2023
• Studio
  Lawrence Russ
• Website
  https://lawrenceruss.com

The images are set in natural or simulated night-time and involved the use of numerous flash techniques and units, sometimes as many as ten strobes with almost as many different types of modifiers. Each image features the same woman, her face turned away or partly "veiled," manifesting her differing aspects, guises and mysteries. And not only hers, I hope, but virtually all women's (and men's, too, though men may be less ready to see it). That hope is one reason for Marion’s “veiling” and the choice of simple clothes and settings, not much tied to particular styles, times or groups.

Lawrence Russ received a Master of the Fine Arts degree from the Writing Program of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he was one of two Honorary Fellows in Poetry. He published prose and poetry in many journals and anthologies, and was a First Runner-up for the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. His photographic work, to which he's been dedicated for the last 23 years, has been chosen in international competition for exhibition, publication or honors by galleries, museums, magazines, and centers in every region of the U.S., and in many global awards competitions.

Awards International Photography Awards (2015, 2022-2025) total 1 Juror Top 5 Pick, 2 Honorable Mentions, 10 Official Selections; London International Creative Competition Awards (2024, 2025) 1 Shortlist, 2 Official Selections; Tokyo International Foto Awards (2025) 3 Honorable Mentions; International COLOR Awards (2021-2025), 1 Category First Prize, 7 Honorable Mentions, 39 Prize Nominations; Fine Art Photography Awards (London) (2025, 2023, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2015), 3 Honorable Mentions, 10 Prize Nominations; reFocus International Color Photography Awards (2023-2025), 1 Honorable Mention, 3 Prize Nominations; reFocus World Annual Photo Awards (2024, 2025), 2 Prize Nominations; Architecture MasterPrize Awards (2025), 3 Honorable Mentions; Analog Sparks International Film Photography Awards (2023), 2 Silver (category) Prizes; NYC4PA (New York Center for Photographic Art) (2024-2026), 3 Juror's Selections; PhotoPlace Gallery (Middlebury, VT, U.S.) (2021), Juror's Honorable Mention; A Smith Gallery (Johnson City, TX), Director's Honorable Mention (2016); COLOR Magazine, Annual Single Images Contest (2010), Merit Award; Housatonic Museum of Art (CT U.S.), Annual Open Juried Exhibition, 1st Honorable Mention (2005).