Andrew Shafer of American Photo takes a look at this year’s winner of the Santa Fe Prize for Photography contest, Leigh Anne Langwell. The Santa Fe Prize for Photography recognizes and rewards a gifted and committed photographer who has completed, or is near completion of, a meaningful body of work.Langwell's "photographs" are actually photograms, images created without a camera by placing objects on photo-sensitive material and exposing them to light. The lack of a camera is apparently not important to the people at Center (formerly the Santa Fe Center for Photography), who this week awarded Langwell the Santa Fe Prize for Photography. But even making the photograph-photogram distinction, her images still cannot be accurately portrayed. They often don't even look like a typical photogram, because she uses a unique process to create them.
Read the entire online article, which includes an image gallery, at popphoto.com.
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