Gold / 2024 / Fine Art / People

• Prize
  Gold in Fine Art/People, 1st Place winner in Fine Art
• Photographer
  Drew Gardner, United Kingdom
• Studio
  Gardner Creative

The Culmination of 3 years of painstaking research of family trees and archives to identify photos of Black Civil war combatants then to trace and contact their descendants and persuade them to be the sitter in the recreation the photograph of their forebear(with the descendant).
The series was made possible by bringing the descendants together from all over the USA and carrying out the shoot in a daylight studio in New York, utilising a tintype camera.
The series was the main centrepiece for the Black history month of the Smithsonian magazine with one of the images was used on the cover