Landscape Finalist

Stemming from the photographer's personal archive, this series employs hand-printed and collaged colour negatives that are reconfigured into abstracted landscape representations. Purposefully undisclosed locations — sites that may otherwise be loaded with personal and political connotations — are collaged and repurposed, transforming them into spaces of greater universality. Alluding to idealised and utopian spaces, these staged landscapes reference the histories of photography, from Pictorialist combination printing processes to contemporary discourse, conflating the ‘real’ and the imaginary. In doing so, the work embodies a plurality of viewpoints, playfully defying photographic traditions and Western pictorial conventions that embody singular, fixed and idealised views.

Dafna Talmor, a London-based artist, is a Royal Photographic Society Honorary Fellow with work in collections including the National Trust, V&A Museum and Deutsche Bank, and in publications such as The Women Who Changed Photography and Constructed Landscapes, her monograph published by Fw:Books, longlisted for the Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award in 2021.