I submitted this under editorial, a story for New York Times on single dads who have elected to have children but not through marriage. Steve Harris conceived Ben with a surrogate mother and donor egg. The playpen in the office allows Ben to visit his dad at the Law office, however I am pretty sure the Nanny is always nearby.
I picked this mainly because it is funny and attention grabbing, it is not however the image that ran. What can you say, it’s a crapshoot…
Under personal unpublished I submitted this excerpt from the series “Flyover States.”
This was the description:
“I would like to go back to a time when a solitary aircraft flying overhead was an object of wonder and beauty instead of suspicion and dread. The aircraft are purposely rendered small and visible only in high magnifications, dissolving into grain, passing or intersecting a boundary between existence and disappearance from sight.”
I played with the idea of having dyptics where I would actually enlarge the section in question to show how the image dissolves into grain, or in this case, noise. Unfortunately digital images as pixels do not enlarge the way that film images break up into grain. Very quickly you get square pixels. Someone needs to invent a stochastic image sensor.
It is very hard to look at these pictures and not feel something awful might happen. The military has used silhouettes as enemy aircraft identification training since the dawn of flight. Yet the silhouette of a bird carries no such connotation.
Yes I know I don’t have a hope in hell of winning PDN. YMMV.
i love the top image – i would certainly select that – if you had shot it for the magazine i bet it would get in for sure ; )