Still life

Photo © Sina Kelvani

1st classified

Synthetic Seas
by Boyz Bieber


Every year, 8 million metric tons of plastics enter our ocean on top of the estimated 150 million metric tons that currently circulate our marine environments. This project, in collaboration with food Stylist Maria Ilona, seeks to illustrate the beauty of the natural world while...

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Runner up

Italian Pasta
by Cosimo Barletta - Mayda Mason


Bavette Pasta from the series "Symbolism, food and art". We have taken the classic still life paintings but with food as main subject and we have reinterpreted them in a modern context, inserting iconic common objects made of plastic that in the next future will disappear, like p...

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Highly commended

Egg, Egg, Egg
by Joerg Egerer


The egg yolk forms a symbiosis with the dishes. The viewer can see different forms of an egg: the egg yolk, a fried egg and a whole egg.

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Highly commended

Hydrangea
by Peter Eleveld


This image was created with an old wooden camera, using Wet Plate collodion on glass plate. The Wet Plate process is exciting and full of surprises and sometimes disappointments! You only have one prepared Wet Plate and one chance to get it right. You have to think ahead, make th...

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Highly commended

Strawberry Farmers
by Leka Huie


A studio shot of a strawberry and miniature farmers. The photo shows the concept of Men at Work. I used one back side lighting and front lighting to illuminate the strawberry, the fork and the miniature farmers.

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Highly commended

Flower Still Life with Tulips and Papaya
by Marjan Van Herpen


Flower still life with flowers and fruit inspired by he painting of the Dutch masters of the 17th century. I especially like the scarce lighting that was so beautifully used by the painters from the Golden Age. The fruit is always for consumption afterwards. My children like 'to...

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Commended

The Coffee Face
by Sergio Mantello


Still life di figura femminile realizzata interamente con elementi legati al caffè: polvere di caffè per il corpo, tazzina con caffè vero, capelli fatti di chicchi, ecc.

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Commended

Unknown
by Wei Chang


A perfect symmetry of shapes and colors in the image of these two fishes, which refers to the unknown.

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Commended

Spot and Swirls
by Jacqueline Hammer


This is a still life taken on a black tile in front of my computer screen. I placed the flask and glasses close to the diagonal line and carefully filled them with water. I moved them around a little until I was happy with the interesting effects produced by refraction of light i...

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Commended

Still Life with Bottles
by Oleg Bolotnikov


This work is dedicated to the Italian painter and printmaker Giorgio Morandi, who specialized in still life. His paintings are noted for their tonal subtlety in depicting apparently simple subjects, which were limited mainly to vases, bottles, bowls, flowers and landscapes. Not c...

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Commended

Milk and Coffee
by Sadiqur Rahman


I had captured this photograph during the lock down time. During this time I tried to do something in indoor, I prepared this and executed it.

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