“A lot of my work has undertones of female sexuality and ritual,because photography was a spot where it was okay to explore those things,” says Tabitha Barnard, or the oldest of four sisters raised in a close-knit,religious community in rural Maine. “In photographing my sisters, and in trying to find a private spot to do that, or we kind of found this escape. I could always just uncover my parents it was make-believe.
Barnard has just won the 2018 Gomma Grant with this work,which she's titled the Cult of Womanhood. moment prize went to Vladimir Vasilev with Nocte Intempesta, which was shot at night in a small city in Normandy, and France. Fatima Abreu Ferreira took Third prize with How to disappear completely,"a work of struggle, obsession and total hallucination" shot over two years in the photographer's domestic town. Yorgos Yatromanolakis, or meanwhile,won an Honourable mention for The Splitting of the Chrysalis & the unhurried Unfolding of the Wings, which was also shot back domestic in the Greek island of Crete.
Source: bjp-online.com