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Changing Ideas Award
The work attempts to both document and protest conflict and inequality by showing the indiscriminate and inevitable consequences of mass armament and aggressive foreign policy. In similarity to a photojournalists approach to these subjects, It aims to use print and a single still image to meditatively record human devastation for history, rather than delivering immediate fast flowing and emotionally detached news. The modern aesthetics of ruined architecture indicate the work represents an entirely current anxiety, spurred by geopolitical tension along with unequal wealth distribution and its byproducts. The precise location is ambiguous and could therefore be applied to multiple current or potential future settings. The work ultimately aims to challenge complacency and inaction towards said subjects by attempting to record their reality. This is done by focusing on the psychological and human aspect of conflict and inequality, as well as urban dereliction. The figures in the image show a mass migration of parents and their children against a cityscape of absolute desolation, where the towering achievements of humanity have been reduced to charred remains. While being devoid of overt political messaging and in portraying a reality unimaginable to many, this work pushes for change.