Wildlife - Professional

Menagerie #2

Roberta Murray
Canada

Nominee

"Menagerie #2"
Got an itch - scratch it. Great Grey Owl

Biography: Roberta Murray approaches photography much the same as the Pictorialist photographers of the late 19th century to tell a more personal, interpretative story based on her dreams and imagination. Murray combines traditional techniques, historical ideas and contemporary tools, using the camera more as a paintbrush than a mechanical device in creating her images. "When I look through the viewfinder of a camera all I see is a small rectangular representation of reality. My view of the world becomes isolated and distorted. Sometimes out of the corner of my eye, reflected in the looking...

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