Juror Stephen Perloff has selected the overall winner of the 16th Pollux Awards, as well as 1st, 2nd, 3rd prize and Honorable Mentions in the thematic categories in sections Single Image and Series.
2,824 entries were received from these countries: Argentina, Afghanistan, Australia, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, French Polynesia, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States.
The overall winner is Frank Rodick from Toronto, Canada.
Click in the following names of the respective categories to see the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd prize, and Honorable Mentions in each thematic category: (in alphabetical order)
Abstract to Black & White - Cell Phone to Digital Manipulation - Documentary & Reportage to Fine Art - Landscapes & Seascapes to Nude & Figure - Open Theme to Portrait - Segregation and Human Rights to Wild Life.
LIST OF AWARDEES OF THE 16TH JULIA MARGARET CAMERON AWARD AND THE 16TH POLLUX AWARDS:
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The list is in alphabetical order and will help you to find which awards have you been granted. The list starts with the 16th Julia Margaret Cameron Award and then continues with the 16th Pollux Awards. Just scroll down to find your name and the respective awards.
ABOUT Frank Rodick
Over his career, Frank Rodick has developed his tools from the diverse repertoires of traditional photography, alternative darkroom techniques, Polaroid technology, video, and digital imaging. Reshaping and applying these methods in multiple configurations, he has created works ranging from the shadowy cityscapes of Liquid City and the desolate faces and bodies of Faithless Grottoes all the way to his recent explorations in the portrait genre. The vein running through these collections of imagery is Rodick’s evolving but abiding obsession with what goes on inside us— those mysteries and convolutions of our internal lives and intimate relationships.
Rodick’s work includes the forty images of Liquid City; the studies of the nude form in sub rosa later reworked as Masquerade; the Arena pictures and Faithless Grottoes, both founded in the video; two series of small scale works installed in wooden cases entitled Revisitations and I live there now; the expressionistic portraits based on the life and death of his parents, Frances and Joseph; and finally several series of self-portraits, including the most recent work, untitled selves.
Over eighty exhibitions, including more than 35 solo shows, have featured Frank Rodick's work, which has also been published in numerous magazines, journals, and books. Museums and other public institutions across the world have acquired his work for their permanent collections. These include the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University; the Brandts Museum (Denmark); the Brooklyn Museum; the Fort Wayne Museum of Art (United States); the Franklin Rawson Provincial Museum of Fine Arts (Argentina); the Fundación Luz Astral, Buenos Aires; the Kinsey Institute Collection; Lehigh University Art Galleries; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Salta (Argentina); the Museum of Photography at Charleroi (Belgium); the National Fine Arts Museum of Buenos Aires; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the National Gallery of Canada; the New Mexico Museum of Modern Art; and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Individual collectors in North America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia have acquired his pictures for their private collections.
Frank Rodick has travelled to four continents to lecture on his work as well as to lead workshops where drawing on his extensive education and experience as a practising psychotherapist and teacher, he focuses on helping other artists and students in all media enhance their personal creative process and vision.
Frank’s Statement
The images in this new series (working title: “aphorisms from a dialogue between dust and spirit”) represent a vision of the human condition in extremis. Constructed from vernacular photographs that anchor the transfigured images in the physical reality of portrait, each picture may be perceived as a representation of multiple overlapping states of being: dissolution, transience, pain, resignation, tragedy. Narratives behind each image may be imagined but remain ambiguous, permitting viewers to become active participants in the creative experience by constructing their own intimate interpretations.
LIST OF AWARDEES OF THE 16TH JULIA MARGARET CAMERON AWARD AND THE 16TH POLLUX AWARDS
Download the list from HERE. If the link does not work, copy and paste this URL in your browser: https://spaces.hightail.com/receive/EvOK4FEzbU.
The list is in alphabetical order and will help you to find which awards have you been granted. The list starts with the 16th Julia Margaret Cameron Award and then continues with the 16th Pollux Awards. Just scroll down to find your name and the respective awards.
Once you know your awards, you can go to this PAGE to see the selected images.