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Created in 2012, Camera Clara Photo Award is dedicated to photographers using large format camera. It rewards an unpublished work created by an artist, presented as a series or other coherent and comprehensive photographic set. The work will be assessed on its coherence, as a form as well as a content.
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Roei Greenberg
Prize winner 2021
Roei Greenberg is a London based artist, graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2020.
His photographic practice is concerned with landscape as a complex intersection between culture, geography and autobiography. He grew up on a Kibbutz in Israel, located on Lebanese border. The concept of boundaries (political and social) and the relations between land, power, belonging and legitimacy are amongst the issues investigated in his work. Combining an objective aesthetic with strong emphasis on research and critical approach, He creates multi-layered photographic perspectives; pictorial and alluring yet seeking to disrupt traditional modes of landscape representation.
Greenberg’s work has received vast recognition and exposure, showing in museums and galleries such as: Aperture Gallery, South London Gallery, Leeds Art Gallery, The Benaki Museum, the Israel Museum and Webber Gallery, to name a few. His work was nominated and awarded repeatedly over the past years. He was selected for the Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2019, and his recent body of work entitled English Encounters, was selected by Professor Andreas Gursky, when invited to curate his selection from the RCA 2020 graduates
“The rural walk is a well-known English cultural practice. Though it may be civil, the act of walking itself is rooted in an ideology from my own cultural background; to walk the land is to know the land, and therefore suggests belonging, entitlement and ownership. I begin to survey the English countryside, becoming familiar with the island's geography, an act of mapping that refers to imperial and colonial histories. Pertaining to Romanticism, I appropriate the visual rules of the picturesque; traditionally used to create an illusion of social and natural harmony. The dramatic light and weather conditions combined with forensic attention to details and on-site interventions intend to provoke the ambiguous feelings of seduction and alienation. Poetic and alluring yet tinged with irony, the images seek to disrupt traditional modes of representation in a place where land ownership and social hierarchy have shaped the form and perception of the landscape for centuries.”