Nude - Amateur

Holofernes

Judit Pap
USA

Nominee

"Holofernes"
Photographic adaptation of Jan Massys painting "Judith with the Head of Holofernes" (1543) exhibited at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA). Photographed in October, 2012

Biography: I was born in October 1974 in Budapest, Hungary and have been living in Nashville, Tennessee since 2004. From an early age I recognized my artistic calling and began experimenting with different forms of art, mostly drawing, painting, and writing. However, I struggled to find the full richness of my creative voice. Then in late 2010 I received as a gift my first camera, a small point and shoot. As I began taking photographs I suddenly found that, unlike any other artistic form, I was able to articulate all that I saw and felt in life. It is through the medium of photography that my...

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