Under the weight of flowers

• Prize
  Bronze in Fine Art/Other
• Photographer
  Stephanie O'Connor, Germany

A collection of images from Stephanie O’Connor captures the delicate fecundity of Spring. Cropped close-ups blur the boundaries of human and floral forms, creating an urban garden of light and intricate texture, dense with memory of the lush gardens of O’Connor’s childhood in Aotearoa – and the familial intimacy to be found there. Colours move like the memory of a fragrance – rich, layered; their gentle temporal fade ruptured by new waves of remembering.