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ClientJoan Osato
PhotographerJoan Osato
PrizeBronze in Press / Nature/Environmental
Entry Description

Home in the World; An Apocalyptic Travelogue Home in the World is a new photographic series inspired and realized through my travels and travails with my “lonesome cowboy” partner, and our pack of two animals. In Greek, the word Apocalypse means "lifting of the veil" or "revelation", and is a disclosure of something hidden from the majority of mankind in an era dominated by falsehood and misconception. Home in the World explores our place and displacement out in the yet-wild parts of the American West and uses forced perspective, tilt-shift photography and selective blurring as a tool to isolate minute detail within the grandeur and overwhelming scale of the terrain. Combined in unorthodox ways, the photography and effects in Home in the World advance an aesthetic created to unveil the hidden meanings in ordinary things.

About Photographer

I was born and raised in the San Francisco bay area. I am a self-taught photographer, who dedicates most of my professional life to supporting individual artists, the development of their projects, and producing their work for stage. In 2009 I made a decision to make a serious investment in my personal artistic work, which includes concentrating on literary fiction, and photography. I work exclusively in medium film format, preferring to work with existing light, hand held. My style is documentary, although my favorite images exude mysterious and dreamlike qualities.