Echoes and Illusions

• Prize
• Photographer
  Camilla Broadbent, United Kingdom
• Studio
  Camilla Broadbent Photographer
• Website
  http://www.camillabroadbent.com

These photographs are intended to engage the viewers subconscious. They are highly
coloured and richly textured. The internal mirroring, using the “Rorschach” effect, can
appear strange and beautiful, or bizarre and disturbing.

Since Leonardo de Vinci and Botticelli in the renaissance, “ambiguous designs” have been
used to assess personality. And in 1921 Rorschach created the standardized inkblot test.
There are ten official blots of near-perfect bilateral symmetry.

Rorschach inkblots have been widely used to study the individual’s phycology, imagination,
consciousness, personality and mental health of both children and adults. The analysis of
inkblot tests is hugely complex and also controversial. But the enduring fascination is
how the same shapes produce such different responses and interpretations in each individual.

Layering details from 17th Baroque painting, and my own still life photographs, these
surreal juxtapositions are created, and strangeness appears in the spaces in-between.

• Biography
  Recent Solo Exhibitions 2021 - Wanton Boys - Chelsea Arts Club 2021 - Strange Shadows - Putney Gallery 2017 - Looking on Darkness - Viewfinder Gallery 2016 - Scenes of Deceit - Chelsea Arts Club 2013 - Strange Fruit - The Art Gallery Wales 2011 - Thinking makes it so - Aldeburgh 2010 - Beautiful and Damned - Hoxton Gallery 2010 - Strange Shadows - Association of Photographers Gallery 2010 - Phantoms of Delight - Archer's Soho 2008 - It’s Your Turn - Chelsea Gallery 2006 - Becoming - Chelsea Gallery 2005 - Silent Lives - Blue Room Soho 2003 - No Such Thing - Chelsea Gallery
• Awards
  AWARDS 2023 - Julia Margaret Cameron Awards - Finalist 2023 - PX3 – International Paris Photo Prize – Finalist 2023 - International Color Awards – Finalist 2022 - International Spider Black and White Awards – Finalist 2022 - IPA International Photography Awards - Finalist 2022 - Julia Margaret Cameron Awards - Finalist 2022 - Monovisions Awards – Finalist 2021 - IPA - Finalist 2021 - International Color Awards - Finalist 2021 - Julia Margaret Cameron Awards- Finalist 2021 - Monovisions Awards – Finalist 2021 - International Spider- Finalist 2021 - PX3 - Finalist 2020 - BJP Female in Focus - Winner 2020 - IPA International Photography Awards - Finalist 2020 - International Color Awards - Finalist 2019 - IPA- International Photography Awards - Finalist 2018 - International Color Awards - Winner 2017 - IPA - International Photography Awards - Finalist 2017 - PX3 International Paris Photo Prize - Winner 2016 - PX3 International Paris Photo Prize - Winner 2015 - Renaissance Photography Prize Finalist 2015 - IPA International Photography Awards - Winner 2015 - Pink Lady food photographer - Finalist 2011 - Arles International Open Competition - Finalist 2010 - PX3 International Paris Photo Prize - Winner 2010 - Vermont International Self Portraiture Competition 2009 - Plates to Pixels International Competition - Winner 2009 - Terry O'Neill Award Competition - Finalist 2009 - LPA Documentary Competition - Finalist 2009 - Photo8 - Finalist 2008 - AOP Red Dot Exhibition 2008 - AOP Polaroid Retrospective 2008 - LPA Portrait Competition - Finalist 2007 - Royal Photographic Society International Competition - Gold Medal -The Overall Winner 2007 - EMAP Shots - Finalist 2007 - Artoteque - Distinction 2006 - AOP Capture Competition Finalist 2005 - AOP Open - Finalist 2004 - AOP Open - Finalist 2003 - NPG Self Portrait UK Finalist 2002 - Kobal [now Taylor Wessing] Portrait Prize - Finalist