WINNERS

Buffalo Dream

  • Photographer
    Dmitry Gudkov, United States
  • Prize
    Architecture Photographer of the Year / Gold Winner in Architecture/Large-Format

This series imagines the city of Buffalo, New York, as if in a dream-like trance. This is a city with a vibrant past and an uncertain future. A place where giant decaying industrial machinery, verdant urban parks, humble row houses, and 19th century mansions exist side by side. The series is created with a 100% analog process. The same sheet of black and white 4x5 film is exposed on two different scenes to create the blended, dream-like effect. It poses the question: Is the grandeur of the past an inspiration? Or is it a stone around the neck, a constant reminder that times have changed?