Honorable Mention
Ascension I
DESCRIPTION
The first image of a series I started making during the first COVID 19 lockdown of 2020 (although shards of many of the ideas used have been with me far longer).Through this series, I invite the viewer to escape with me into a magical reality of my creation based on quick flashes of inspiration that I happened to have noted down at the time, (day)dreams I've had that somehow stuck with me or books read and movies watched only to be completely forgotten about.
Using self-portraits, pictures either specifically taken or found in my archives, and photoshop I create a reality that while looking real, has clear signs of magic and wonder to it.
AUTHOR
After a career spanning 15 years in IT support, Joost decides to take his passion for photography to a new level and starts a bachelor's degree at Luca school of arts in Brussels in September of 2012. He graduates in 2017 with "Alt-right cogitations". A series of photographs reflecting on the global rise of rightwing ideologies and authoritarianism.