COME HELL OR HIGH WATER


  • Photographer
    Coco Amardeil
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    2016

Emerging from a body of water naturally provokes a strong range of human emotions. In “Come Hell or High Water” we see millennials at this critical moment, their faces breaking the surface of the water displaying a range of emotions, from joy to fear, astonishment, and tranquility . In this isolated, abstract moment, it is hard to know the truth of their expressions, but the genuine depth of feeling behind them cannot be ignored. Coco chose to work with people of this age specifically because they are overcome with apprehension and a multifaceted anxiety in a sea of stimuli that surround them. The images are ambiguous in their location – it is impossible to know whether they are in a pool, a sea, or a lake, and this dislocation is accentuated by the artificiality of the light which is at odds with the calm, pastoral feeling of the images. Every pore, blemish, and drop of water is clearly visible in this series

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