People: Travel (PROFESSIONAL) - HONORABLE MENTION
Icons on Water
Photo © Alina Fedorenko
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Can you imagine spending your hole life on the water? They swim, from the birth till the end, few generations in one share a small houseboat. Children, grandparents, cats and dogs, parents, kids running trough the small space, they swim before they walk. The Life seams like everywhere else supermarkets, a school, repair shops, barber, Television, a church and a temple. This small floating village in Kambodia seams to have a normal life like usual villages does.
I could not imagine the life i saw from the distance. I wanted to get closer, closer then only passing them, i wanted to enter the life of this people. Nothing is more closer to get to a person, then enter their home, a home is the soul of their owner.
At the moment i step out of the boat i entered a world which paralysed me of the beauty in such a small space, the colors were blending my eyes, i was lightened from inside of this magical colors, it reminds me of the power of the icon virgen de guadalupe, without the religious ascpects, the beauty, but somehow it has a magical souranding for me. The wooden floor gives creaky sounds, the floors are silky like someone would oil them every day, it is unbelieveable clean. I enter this magical world and a light swinging accompening my stay. Every piece has it own place and everything seams very orginised. Nearly every home has some pets or farm animals, even bycicles, the kitchens are very orginised and thoughtfull arranged. The people are very kind and friendly, some are curious some seams shy and others are overwelmed by my interest. Sometimes a can share a moment without beeing recognized and this brings me even closer to the real life of this beautiful world
My name is Alina Fedorenko and I am a emerging photographer. If you are new to this business and try to get your work out there, you are thankful for oppurtunies like contests to be recognized in your first steps. What you don´t know in the beginning that more than half of the contests are bringing you nowhere, no exposure, not even on google your name rise or your story get visible. These contests try not to push their chosen ones, only thing what you end up is a great first place in some category which means nothing. To learn that, you have to go through all these before you realize what is behind all that game.
The moment when you receive for the first time an 1 place at some contest is fulfilled with joy and you are so happy that your work is getting recognized finally, but than after few of them you realize that nothing happens you start to get sad and you doubt the industry. Photography is my Love, Photography is something what fulfill me in every corner of my body, mind and soul, Photography is something that I can use to tell stories about people who will never have a chance to race their voice, Photography is my weapon to case a change, to make life on this earth better. Everything I had I invested in this dream, I took my child on my back to get my work done, to produce series and photography. I´m not a hobby photographer, my life is photography and I´m more than sad to read the news about the fake contests around there, who uses dreams to make their lives better, live in bigger houses and buy even bigger cars, while the
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Can you imagine spending your hole life on the water? They swim, from the birth till the end, few generations in one share a small houseboat. Children, grandparents, cats and dogs, parents, kids running trough the small space, they swim before they walk. The Life seams like everywhere else supermarkets, a school, repair shops, barber, Television, a church and a temple. This small floating village in Kambodia seams to have a normal life like usual villages does.
I could not imagine the life i saw from the distance. I wanted to get closer, closer then only passing them, i wanted to enter the life of this people. Nothing is more closer to get to a person, then enter their home, a home is the soul of their owner.
At the moment i step out of the boat i entered a world which paralysed me of the beauty in such a small space, the colors were blending my eyes, i was lightened from inside of this magical colors, it reminds me of the power of the icon virgen de guadalupe, without the religious ascpects, the beauty, but somehow it has a magical souranding for me. The wooden floor gives creaky sounds, the floors are silky like someone would oil them every day, it is unbelieveable clean. I enter this magical world and a light swinging accompening my stay. Every piece has it own place and everything seams very orginised. Nearly every home has some pets or farm animals, even bycicles, the kitchens are very orginised and thoughtfull arranged. The people are very kind and friendly, some are curious some seams shy and others are overwelmed by my interest. Sometimes a can share a moment without beeing recognized and this brings me even closer to the real life of this beautiful world
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Dear International Photographer of the Year Contest,My name is Alina Fedorenko and I am a emerging photographer. If you are new to this business and try to get your work out there, you are thankful for oppurtunies like contests to be recognized in your first steps. What you don´t know in the beginning that more than half of the contests are bringing you nowhere, no exposure, not even on google your name rise or your story get visible. These contests try not to push their chosen ones, only thing what you end up is a great first place in some category which means nothing. To learn that, you have to go through all these before you realize what is behind all that game.
The moment when you receive for the first time an 1 place at some contest is fulfilled with joy and you are so happy that your work is getting recognized finally, but than after few of them you realize that nothing happens you start to get sad and you doubt the industry. Photography is my Love, Photography is something what fulfill me in every corner of my body, mind and soul, Photography is something that I can use to tell stories about people who will never have a chance to race their voice, Photography is my weapon to case a change, to make life on this earth better. Everything I had I invested in this dream, I took my child on my back to get my work done, to produce series and photography. I´m not a hobby photographer, my life is photography and I´m more than sad to read the news about the fake contests around there, who uses dreams to make their lives better, live in bigger houses and buy even bigger cars, while the
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