These images were submitted to the PDN Curator Photo Contest, which looks for undiscovered fine art photography. The top prize includes a solo exhibition in NYC.
My challenge on this submission was to take a documentary project and present it in a way that makes it stand alone without the storyline. Well, after many, many edits and shuffling of images I found these six images of disabled soldiers in the SUDS scuba-diving program in Florida that worked very nicely together.
These were picked because I found I couldn't present a group of images from this project without honoring the story of their journey from near-death to new life, but my hope is that the pictures will tell enough a story without the need for accompanying text.
I did choose to "treat" the images artfully by presenting them as toned black and white images. This was designed to distill the content of the image without being distracted by color. The power of these pictures is in the faces and body language of each soldier, and the vividness of the environment takes away from that.
So, is this gallery of images 'fine art'?
Does it appeal to you purely on its aesthetic and emotional merits, or is is just another news story?
Let me know what you think.....
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