Joseph Bankowski
USA

Nominee

"Alone (1)"

Biography: The world around us is a uniquely interesting place that allows the artist with a camera to freeze and capture the extraordinary moments of everyday life. A photographer is a storyteller with the world as a script and an empty frame, like a blank canvas, to be drawn or painted upon. Photography is an extension of my identity that not only provides me the opportunity to make art, but also to share beauty, emotions, dreams and reality. Photography is magic and its images hold power. I'm a self-taught photographer, shoot exclusively digital and have spent the last several years capturing...