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1st Place - Outstanding Achievement
Title:By the Shore
By the Shore from her book, DINING ALONE In the Company of SolitudeScherl uses peopled restaurant interiors as her metaphor for visually expressing what people alone in public might experience.
Biography:
Nancy Scherl is a fine art portrait photographer based in New York City. Stylistically, Nancy emulates cinema verité, particularly for her portrait series, often posing her subjects, offering subtle direction, and asking them to “act out” what they experience when they’re in a specific setting. The setting is frequently enhanced with formal lighting to create a specific ambience. Her portraits often invoke metaphor and social commentary. *(Though Nancy blurs the boundaries between pictorial, social documentary and street genres in much of her work, she distinguishes between her staged... |
