Bétons Feidt
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PrizeBronze in Architecture/Industrial
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PhotographerRichard Pilnick, United Kingdom
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Date of Photograph2025
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StudioRichard Pilnick Ltd
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Bétons Feidt turns its attention toward the people behind one of Luxembourg's oldest concrete manufacturers. Moving between portraiture and observation, the work examines labour, place and identity within an industry that shapes everything around us yet remains largely unseen. Many of those who sustain it arrived in Luxembourg from elsewhere. In a climate that often reduces migration to statistics or rhetoric, these images return attention to lived experience, suggesting a quieter truth: the hands holding the built world together often belong to those it would rather not acknowledge.
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.
