Mar 13, 2013
Rod Bland's award-winning photo "Sarah with Clothesline and Spacesuit". Copyright Rod Bland 2013.
Vancouver,
BC – Langara would like to congratulate Continuing Studies
Photography student Rod Bland on winning a 2013 Applied Arts Photography and
Illustration Award for his picture “Sarah with Clothesline and Spacesuit”. The
image has been selected as the winner in the “Single Self Promotional Photo”
category.
Entries from photographers and illustrators in 20 different countries flooded
in for the awards this year, representing some of the very best work produced
internationally over the past 12 months. All winning entries will be displayed
in the May/June issue of Applied Arts
Magazine, in a Winners Gallery on the Applied Arts website, and in the
annual Winners Exhibit in Toronto this fall.
“It was a real honour to get the Applied Arts win, and
even though this was not a student project I can give very direct credit to the
Langara CS Photography Program and instructors for getting me where I am
quickly,” said Bland. “I believe that the program has given me insight and put
me ahead towards becoming the type of professional photographer that I want to
be.”
Rod’s concept for the award-winning entry was to find
something “beautiful, interesting, and dangerous” in the mundane. The image
comes from a series of work he created depicting regularly dull chores, tasks,
and events in a way that is interesting, unsettling, fun, and contradictory.
The “clothesline” image took three months to create, from original
conceptualization to final execution.
The Vancouver-based photographer’s background is in visual
effects for film and television, a history which he believes has facilitated
his quest to develop as a professional image-maker.
Learn more.
Annie Mullins
Communications Officer
Communications & Marketing
T 604.323.5058
amullins@langara.bc.ca