/ 2026 / Fine Art / Nudes

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Daniel Voellinger, United States
• Date of Photograph
  January 7, 2026
• Studio
  Dan Voellinger Photography
• Website
  Https://www.altmod.co
• Instagram
  https://www.instagram.com › altmod

Freedom to Tie is a series of photography work that is putting a spotlight on the use of shibari (rope tying), taking something that historically has been used to dominate and completely control women both physically and often sexually by men into something that is giving total freedom to the women and is both beautiful and sensual, emphasizing the beauty and movement of the body.

Dan Voellinger grew up in Rochester, New York. Involved with photography at a young age, he made his own pinhole camera which used polaroid film. He also worked for Eastman Kodak as an Intern during his last year of High School.  As an employee of the Kodak Marketing Education Center he received free film and developing, all before the digital age. He had worked for the Navy for over forty years and traveled the world, with camera always in hand.  Japan had been his base for most all of the thirty years.  Currently residing in Florida showing work at the D.R. Abbott Gallery in St Augustine.

Awards Certified Professional Photographer by the Professional Photographers of America, 16 October 2025

Selected for the ADC Art Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio - Art Comes Alive International Open Exhibition, Cincinnati, Ohio, Nov 15-Jan 15 2026. Title: “Freedom to Tie” Awarded “Best of Show Runner-up” and Best Figurative Artist.

Selected to participate in the Fashion exhibition, The Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Glasgow, Scotland, 3-20 Dec 2025, Title: “Devotion”

Certificate of Accomplishment - International Photo Awards - IPA 2025 Official Selection Professional - Category: Fine Art, Nudes. Title “Exquisite”

Professional Photographers of America International Photographic Competition (IPC) 2025 Bronze Award. Title: “Freedom”

Published in the POET Book - Title: “Ponce Towers” 2020.

Awarded Red Ribbon - 2018 2nd Tri-Annual Florida Camera Council Competition - Digital Division Monochrome - Title: “Foggy Morning Sunshine”

Professional Photographers of America International Photographic Competition
(IPC) 2026 Bronze Award. Title: “Relaxed"
Tokyo International Foto Awards - 2025 - Category Fine Art Nudes, Three Honorable Mentions, Category Night Photography - Bronze Award.

St Johns County Cultural Council Art in Public Spaces exhibition: Fair Winds to Elysium. Title: “Riverside” April 16-May 29, 2024
St Johns County Show, Title: “Shipwreck on Beach”. 2023

Juried into the “Nude Nite - Orlando 2026 with the Freedom of Ties series.
Juried into the “Nude Nite - St Petersburg 2026 with the Freedom of Ties series.