Across the Void
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PrizeGold in Analog/People, 2nd Place winner in Analog
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PhotographerRichard Pilnick, United Kingdom
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Date of Photograph01.04.2026
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StudioRichard Pilnick Ltd
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From Across the Void, a photographic investigation into Near-Death Experience. Created using expired Polaroid Type 55, the work employs the film's unpredictable chemistry as a metaphor for survival beyond expected endings. The rupture at the centre of the frame obscures identity while opening a space between presence and disappearance, asking what photography can reveal when directed toward experiences that resist ordinary description.
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.