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MFA Graduate student, Carol Record, was selected to be in the Top 50 entries in the Hahnemühle Student Photo Competition entitled Show Us Your Series. Carol’s photography series #metoo was selected as a top 50 finalist out of 700 entries in this international competition.
Artist Statement
The #MeToo movement went viral in October of 2017 and prompted me to visually reexamine and reprocess my own history of sexual assault and harassment. From 1996 to 1999, from the age of 13 to 15, I was raped and manipulated by my stepfather. This series revisits family photographs from this turbulent period and seeks to shed light and express what for so long I could not. Through the addition and subtraction of elements, I create images that are more true and expressive of my life at this time.
Working both digitally and physically allows me to create a layer of separation between myself and the images. Family photos are scanned, manipulated, and then turned into silver gelatin prints by using a laptop to expose the images to the paper. This dual process allows me to both mentally and physically exorcize the demons from my past into the images in this series.
About the Student Photo Competition
The first international Hahnemühle Student Photo Competition, titled Show us Your Series, was aimed at encouraging up-and-coming talents to see and feel their own images printed. Over 3,560 photos were submitted by more than 700 students from 52 countries.
The competition consisted of two rounds. In the first round, students submitted a series of five images online from which 50 finalists were chosen. All finalists received samples of Hahnemühle’s Digital FineArt paper lines to allow them to explore the different results of printing on different paper surfaces and to aid in finding the perfect paper for their work. Finalists were then given A3 paper of their choice to print their series on for the final round of the competition. In the second and final round, the 50 finalists submitted their photo series printed on Hahnemühle paper.
In both rounds, entries were judged based on artistic quality, technical quality, and quality of content by an internationally renowned jury made up of photographers, photojournalists, gallerists, and other experienced photo industry experts.
Three winners and two honorable mentions were chosen and awarded cash prizes and exhibition opportunities. In addition, the work of all 50 finalists was published in a special e-magazine edition of Fine Art Printer, one of the leading photography magazines in German-speaking countries.
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