WINNERS

Hide and Seek

  • Photographer
    Margarita Galandina, United Kingdom
  • Prize
    Gold Winner in Fine Art/Conceptual

Re-visiting the places of my childhood as an adult has a powerful hold on me. Everything appears less enchanting as if the awe and wonder have dissolved with time. It’s the same place, and yet it feels so foreign. To rekindle some of my childhood memories, I have created photographic images that reference the popular childhood game ‘hide and seek’, in which only the protagonists are young adults. The environment is ancient woodland, and many scenes occur within a hollow oak tree that is some seven hundred years old.