Opening the Devon Bridge

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Lawrence Russ, United States
• Date of Photograph
  2020-2023
• Studio
  Lawrence Russ
• Website
  https://lawrenceruss.com

The Devon Bridge carries U.S. 1 over the Housatonic River, between Milford and Stratford, Connecticut. It's protected by law as a listed structure in the National Register of Historic Places for both its historical and its aesthetic significance. I’ve gone to view and photograph it many times, not only its beautiful structures in changing weather and light, but also things like the graffiti that fills the space beneath its southern approach. I hope that these images make clear why I call the series "Opening the Devon Bridge."

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 he 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 PX3 Photographie de la Paris (2025), 4 Honorable Mentions; 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).