Honorable Mention
Wonderland
DESCRIPTION
What was your favorite childhood book? Mine definitely wasn't "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". In my imagination I preferred to travel among the stars, fight space pirates, saving princesses and discovering new planets, but sometimes I had to come back to Earth, which was very boring and then along came Alice to show me one more doorway to escape from the reality. And that's why on the day I found giant mushrooms in the forest, I decided to go back into my childhood, into Wonderland and recreate the feeling that everything is possible and the doorway in my own Wonderland is still open. I used stabalized moss, some mushrooms I made from polymer clay to make this photo. All the special effects are real and they were created in realtime using black wire and aroma stick. AUTHOR
Irina Petrova is an internationally published and award winning photographer and artist. She specializes in wild life micro-photography and science fiction inspired installations organically integrating living and artificial entities. A unique feature of her work is she only uses retro manual focus lenses to share the wonders of the world. She has won a substantial number of awards and prizes, including 3 recent awards in BIFA 2020, winner of FEP Awards 2021 Nature Golden Camera and ND Discovery of the Year in category Nature 2019.