Kodama
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PrizeHonorable Mention
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PhotographerGrant Stirton, Canada
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Date of Photograph2025
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StudioGrant Stirton Photography
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Website
Kodama is a large-format black-and-white photographic project made within the lakes and waterways of the Ontario watershed. Working with film, the project approaches landscape as an active presence shaped by time, pressure, disturbance, and memory. Roots press into stone, water scores bedrock, and fallen trees reorganize space. Drawing from the idea of Kodama as a way of seeing, the work considers landscape not as scenery, but as a participant in ongoing ecological history.
Grant Stirton is a photo-based artist residing near Ottawa, Canada.
Specializing in marine environments, his passion for exploring the natural world is informed by his experience as a photojournalist and marine expedition guide. His practice is a synthesize of modern and historical process, as he works across digital and analog formats, producing hand-made platinum, silver and archival pigment prints.
He is a graduate of SPEOS Photographic Institute in Photojournalism, the University of Toronto in Management and is currently an artist in residence with the School of Photographic Arts Ottawa.
Awards 2022 Group Exhibition, RI Centre for the Photographic Arts, Black and White Exhibition, Providence, RI
2022 Group Exhibition, Red Bluff Art Gallery, Art 4 Animals, Rancho Tehama Reserve, CA
2022 Group Exhibition, Exhibitionzone, Emptiness (Online)
2015 Group Exhibition, AGORA Gallery, On the Rhino Front Line, New York, NY
2014 Group Exhibition, Magnum Photos, Group Exhibition (SPEOS), Paris, France
2014 Group Exhibition, SPEOS Photographic Institute Student Exhibition, Paris, France
2022 ND Awards, 2nd Place – Professional Nature Category, Series, Underwater Statue Park
2015 National Geographic Online, Island's Assignment Editor's Selection
2015 Honourable Mention, PX3 Prix de la Photographie, Series
2015 Honourable Mention, PX3 Prix de la Photographie, Underwater Nature
2015 Honourable Mention, PX3 Prix de la Photographie, Defender in the Kalahari Night
2014 3rd Place, PX3 Prix de la Photographie, Underwater Nature
