Reflections and Recognition: PX3 2025 Awards
I’m honored to share that two of my images received recognition in the 2025 Prix de la Photographie Paris (PX3) awards—an international competition celebrating excellence in fine art and creative photography.
The photograph “Threshold” from my Ghosts in the Glass series was awarded Silver in Fine Art – Architecture, and “Empty Suitcase” from Echoes of Scenic received Bronze in Fine Art – Landscape.
While it’s gratifying to have this work recognized, these images represent much more than visual achievement—they are milestones in a long, personal exploration of memory, time, and transformation within the American landscape.
Ghosts in the Glass was photographed on Mare Island, California—a former naval shipyard filled with quiet echoes of labor, faith, and abandonment. The series examines reflection, both literal and metaphorical, as a way of revealing the layered history embedded in the island’s architecture. Threshold, with its luminous interplay of light and shadow, symbolizes that moment of crossing between presence and absence—between what remains and what has been lost.
By contrast, Echoes of Scenic turns its gaze toward the nearly vanished South Dakota town of Scenic. In this series, objects like the Empty Suitcase evoke what’s left behind—evidence of lives once lived and the passage of time etched into every surface.
Together, these two bodies of work share a single pursuit: to move beyond documentation and into interpretation—to transform physical places into visual metaphors for memory and impermanence.
Recognition from PX3 affirms that these themes still resonate, and that the quiet act of seeing deeply into forgotten places can still speak across boundaries of geography and culture. I’m grateful to the jurors and to the community of artists who continue to inspire me to look closer, linger longer, and translate what I feel into light.
