2018
- Documentary
- 3rd Place
Ray
Wade
- Roosevelt
Red Judge Points:
4
Blue Judge Points:
5
Total Judging Points:
9
Contest Place Points:
4
Student observer notes: this photo was part of a 2-way tie for 2nd place.
- The judges argued on what story the photos were supposed to be telling.
- One judge didn’t think that the series of three photos was really telling a story. The judge said that although the photographs were nice and clean he didn’t know what he was supposed to think about them.
- Another judge defended the photo(s) and said that it gave him a nostalgic and strangely familiar suburban feeling. He said that the photograph(s) reminded him of ones from the 70s and 80s and that it was a retro throwback almost. As for the story, he believed that it was documenting America in the spaces “in between”.
- The other judge replied with “I can buy that” and the photo series was chosen as the 2nd place winner.