The Tree of Hope

• Prize
  Silver in Nature/Seasons
• Photographer
  Richard Pilnick, United Kingdom
• Date of Photograph
  6th April 2019 onwards
• Studio
  Richard Pilnick Ltd
• Socials
• Website
  https://www.richardpilnick.com

The relationship to nature, the seasons of the trees, the seasons of human emotions and relationships, the seasons of business, from conceptual seed to actualised dream, too difficulty and struggle, to new investment and growth. Our relation to nature is ever present. Life is cyclical, a wave of highs and lows whilst we continually grow and evolve. I often watch the trees for the relationship to the self, witnessing the tree go from empty bare tree - the blank canvas where everything is possible. As we see the new shoots begin to appear - the seeds of thoughts and ideas, through to full bloom

• Biography
  Richard Pilnick works with photography as a way of seeing, not only the world in front of the lens, but the interior landscape we carry within. His portraits and studies of people are less about capturing an image and more about entering a conversation: a threshold between self and other. Over twenty-five years he has photographed across four continents, from mountain communities in the Himalayas to concrete plants in Luxembourg, from hotel rooms in Vienna and San Francisco to fishing villages in southern India.