Gorgeous

• Prize
• Photographer
  Pauline Thomas, France
• Website
  http://www.paulinealapage.com

She presents an extract of her disruptive photographic series "in the neck of time". She took the portrait of 123 men and women, face turned to the rear, surfacing a new representation of identity free from genre, social and esthetic aspects.

• Biography
  Pauline Thomas is a 30-yrs-old french artist and web experience designer. She studied photography at Paris VIII, then interactive design at Gobelins, Ecole de l'image, finally computer arts at ENSAD, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts D�©coratifs. She presents "In the neck of time" - awarded 4 times this year and exhibited at the 22nd international exhibition juried by Elisabeth Sussman, curator at the Whitney Museum, in New York. "in the neck of timeâ�� is a serie composed of portraits taken over 3 years. Hundred of men and women were asked to crane their necks, giving themselves nicely to the camera as they didnâ��t have to show their face... The portraits foregrounding â��another facesâ�� cleared from sexual genre, social category and esthetic values. James Brewer says :"This is far from pure photography: it is a way of seeing human beings, and as with many oil paintings, the perception changes as the viewer moves to a new position."