Malcolm Lobban
Canada

2nd Place - Merit of Excellence

"Window & Couch (Light & Shadow) (1)"

visual explorations into light, form, and composition.

Biography: Looking with the eye of an architect, I celebrate the geometry of the human body by expressing the beauty in the shapes and shadows of the female figure. With the use of lighting and movement I try to express accurately in pictures the beauty of a woman in a classical, sensual way, stripped of eroticism and sexuality, by capturing the essence and simple beauty of the woman I am photographing. Playing with light, the photographs give the woman’s body a sort of depth, density and texture. Curves which escape and spill out into melodies, or into spiralling arabesques and curved lines, studies...