WINNERS

Ghost Stories

  • Photographer
    Lisa Toboz, United States
  • Prize
    Fine Art Best New Talent / Gold Winner in Fine Art/Conceptual

"Ghost Stories" explores the liminal spaces between reality and imagination, how spirits continue through personal artifacts––themes of life and death, resurrection and preservation, extending the life of a photo beyond the still image with tromp-l’oeil effects, double exposures, and mixed-media, creating tactile, stand-alone objects. Photography serves to record the physical world, but spirit photography, at its most emotive, aimed to record the immaterial and unknown––a visual metaphor for uncertainty that suggests an alternate survival space for a chaotic reality.