EVERYBODY IS GONE

• Prize
• Photographer
  Alec Von Bargen, Mexico
• Website
  http://www.alec360.com

EVERYBODY IS GONE, taken in Iceland, was shot after the country's recent economic
collapse triggered a mass exodus. The image is solely peopled by two faceless
cowboys painted on a mural, one astride a rearing horse, one standing in the background,
both beckoning nonexistent tourists to fill in the blanks with their own smiling camera
faces. Instead, the two empty holes stare silently off into the distance, one filled with
blue sky, the other, with ocean. EVERYBODY IS GONE is an homage to the silent ghosts of a suffering Iceland.

• Biography
  Using a tiny point-and-shoot camera, Alec Von Bargen seeks to capture the realities of our world one moment at a time. Each panel of digital photographs represents a collection of moments, brief glimpses into our most solitary journeys and the ways these paths inevitably intersect with the outer world.
• Awards
  ALEC VON BARGEN – CV Born in New York City, USA Lives and Works in Akumal, Mexico