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Ellin Pollachek
USA
Nominee
"Tea Bearer"
Naudanda, Nepal
Biography: There is an art to seeing. Sometimes the focus is literal; other times it is interpretive.
As a photographer I see the image I'm photographing and then I make it into the image I want. The world is my canvas. Having spent a significant amount of time in India, a country that I love, many of my images were born there. I, then took it upon myself to transform them so that the literal image isn't what the camera saw but rather what my heart saw.
Prior to picking up my first digital camera in 2000, I shot mostly slide film. I have over 12,000 slides that I took with Kodachrome 25. When...
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