Chloe Dewe Mathews – Caspian

After some winter hibernating, Imprint is back. There have been some great developments over the past couple of months that we’re pretty excited to share, both in the photography world, and right here on this very blog you’re reading right now! We have a number of different big announcements to unveil over the next weeks, each one bigger and more different than the last.

We are very pleased to report that December saw a fabulous turnout for the 2012 Flash Forward call for submissions, and the first rounds of screening are already underway. There’s also been some great stuff cropping up from our Flash Forward alumni, and we’ll leave you with one of them now.

2011 winner Chloe Dewe Mathews was recently honoured with a British Journal of Photography International Photography Award, and a prize that included an exhibition at Foto8 Gallery.

Mathews’ series, Caspian, developed out of her attempt to capture the cultural shifts between Asia and Europe as she travelled overland from China to Britain. Mathews saw the Caspian, the world’s largest inland sea, as a key point in her journey. Her portraits of people, communities, and happenings on its fringes offer an intriguing perspective on an important transitional place.