Genesis Imaging is honoured to continue its support of the Association of Photographers (AOP) Awards, now in its 39th year, continuing our commitment to celebrating excellence in the field of photography.
As a leading provider of professional photographic services, Genesis recognises the importance of supporting emerging talents and established photographers alike, which is why we continue to support The AOP awards.
As well as being showcase sponsors, we are honoured to have sponsored the ‘Project’ category. This category focuses on long-term photographic projects on a singular subject that portrays a narrative, illustrated in a series of 10-20 images or short-form film.
We are excited to announce that the Gold and Silver winners of the Project category are Carol Allen-Storey and Owen Harvey respectively.
Carol Allen Storey: Defying the Myth
Defying the Myth is a collaborative photographic project which I have been working on for the last 10 years which focuses on illuminating the challenges & triumphs faced by 3 families headed by single women, living with severely disabled children.
One of the families at the heart of this project was part of an original yearlong commission in 2014 to create a visual essay about families where children were being raised in poverty by the international NGO – Save the Children.
Although I completed the original project after 12 months, I continued to return to visit the family. I had become impressed by the courage and the fortitude of the single mother and had grown interested in chronicling her story further. I also was intrigued as to how typical this situation was for single mothers with disabled children and how many other stories of this nature existed. I asked her for introductions to other women like her with similar challenges and I worked with her to create a small group of 2 further families who were familiar with each-other, who had similar situations with their children, and who were also living below, on, or close to, the defined ‘poverty line’.
This engagement evolved into an intense co-authored personal project with a total of 3 families.
Owen Harvey: Ground Clearance
In the mid-to-late 1940’s a new subculture in America emerged. Mexican-American youths had been known to place sandbags in their custom vehicles so that the body of their car would ride close to the road. This was aesthetically pleasing for those involved in the scene and would later be technologically advanced, for the same effect to be achieved by hydraulics.
Lowriding was formed out of Mexican-American culture, and the vehicles were decorated to hold political statements and sported images representing the culture from which it was born.
As the years passed, and the 21st century began, Lowriding culture became extremely popular. Often seen in popular music videos, the scene was embraced by cultures all around the world and amassed huge global appeal.
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