WINNERS

To Fly On Their Own Wings

  • Photographer
    Evan Klanfer, United States
  • Prize
    2nd Place in Human / Gold Winner in Human/Youth

These images are part of an ongoing series that examines how places can alter the way that we experience and perceive time– and how those specific environments affect how we adapt (or don’t adapt).I’ve observed that young people in Oregon(U.S.) tend to have a uniquely timeless sort of aesthetic and feeling to them; you get the sense that they're growing up the same way that their parents and grandparents did before them. They exude a raw, unbounded type of energy that harkens back to an era when people were much more connected to the physical world, before social media and smartphones existed.