Marion under the Moon

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Lawrence Russ, United States

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.