I’m excited to share that my #metoo series was selected as a top 50 finalist out of 700 entries in the international Hahnemühle Student Photo Competition entitled Show Us Your Series. I feel so honored to of been selected as one of the top 50 finalists from over 700 entries, especially in an international competition. I love to print my own work so I especially loved getting to test print on all the different papers Hahnemühle sent me and observing the differences each paper made on my image. As an added bonus my work and that of the other finalists was published in a special e-edition of Fine Art Printer, a popular photography magazine in German speaking countries.
I’d like to give a big shout-out to @hahnemuehle_global for hosting this wonderful competition, and an extra big shoutout to Professor Sarah Miles for supporting and encouraging me in the making of this work. Thank you!
Hahnemühle’s Official Press Release
About the Student Photo Competition
The first international Hahnemühle Student Photo Competition, titled Show us Your Series, was aimed at encouraging up-and-coming talents to see and feel their own images printed. Over 3,560 photos were submitted by more than 700 students from 52 countries.
The competition consisted of two rounds. In the first round, students submitted a series of five images online from which 50 finalists were chosen. All finalists received samples of Hahnemühle’s Digital FineArt paper lines to allow them to explore the different results of printing on different paper surfaces and to aid in finding the perfect paper for their work. Finalists were then given A3 paper of their choice to print their series on for the final round of the competition. In the second and final round, the 50 finalists submitted their photo series printed on Hahnemühle paper.
In both rounds, entries were judged based on artistic quality, technical quality, and quality of content by an internationally renowned jury made up of photographers, photojournalists, gallerists, and other experienced photo industry experts.
Three winners and two honorable mentions were chosen and awarded cash prizes and exhibition opportunities. In addition, the work of all 50 finalists was published in a special e-magazine edition of Fine Art Printer, one of the leading photography magazines in German-speaking countries.
About Hahnemühle
Hahnemühle is a German paper manufacturer founded in 1584 and is regarded as the inventor of digital fine art paper for inkjet printers. Awarded ‘Brand of the Century’, Hahnemühle enjoys an esteemed reputation worldwide among artists, photographers, museums, galleries, and collectors.
Artist Statement
The #MeToo movement went viral in October of 2017 and prompted me to visually reexamine and reprocess my own history of sexual assault and harassment. From 1996 to 1999, from the age of 13 to 15, I was raped and manipulated by my stepfather. This series revisits family photographs from this turbulent period and seeks to shed light and express what for so long I could not. Through the addition and subtraction of elements, I create images that are more true and expressive of my life at this time.
Working both digitally and physically allows me to create a layer of separation between myself and the images. Family photos are scanned, manipulated, and then turned into silver gelatin prints by using a laptop to expose the images to the paper. This dual process allows me to both mentally and physically exorcize the demons from my past into the images in this series.
MFA Graduate Student Carol Record – Top 50 in Hahnemuhle Student Photo Competition | JSU Art Blog
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