I’m super excited to announce that not one but two of my photos have been selected as part of the Edition 365 Awards, run by the British Journal Of Photography. Edition 365 is a historical award that was conceived to capture one day of every single day for a whole year starting on 11th March 2020, which was the day that the World Health Organisation (WHO) officially declared a global pandemic as a result of COVID-19.
The 365 winning entries are all part of a virtual exhibition hosted by newart.city, as well as being published in a unique and collectible photo book, which I can’t wait to get my hands on, liking the odd photo book as I do!
And in a first for me the artworks will all be minted and promoted as single edition NFTs (non-fungible tokens) via an auction sale on opensea, both as individual works of art, as well as an exhibition as a whole. NFTs are a way of providing a unique token of ownership of a digital artwork which can be sold and re-sold but can’t be reproduced in anyway. The BBC explains it better than I can, but I’m reining in my hope that these ones go for millions.
There are concerns about the environmental impact of crypto trading but Edition 365 will be minted on Polygon, which has a 99.99% lower carbon emissions than NFTs minted directly on the Ethereum blockchain. Nope, no idea either but hopefully it’s a good thing!
So what are these fabulous images that have been chosen to represent April the 5th and April 25th in this exhibition? Well they both came from my lockdown project called Lockdown:LookUp, which is where I documented the environmental effects of the pandemic on air traffic in the skies above me, as I live under the Heathrow flight path. You can read more about it in this article including why I shot it in black & white, and see the full project in the Projects section of my website.
The one shown above represents the clear skies at night with a very crescent shaped moon above smokeless chimney pots, that could suggest the moon is sleeping well in the quiet of the night.
April 5th is represented by the vapour trail of an aeroplane seeming to come out of the top of a chimney pot, which asks questions about the emissions from both sources during a pandemic which saw a big reduction in air traffic emissions but at the same time an increase in the levels of air pollution from domestic sources, as a significant proportion of the population started to work from home.
I spent a huge amount of the first national lockdown alone in my garden with my camera, and the winning images were shot from the bottom of the garden, and before you ask, yes, it is the same chimney in both!
:DK
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