International Color Awards

Winners Gallery

Abstract nominees

H20 Parasite No. 2
Title:H20 Parasite No. 2
From the Artist's 'Environmental Exaggerations' Series, H20 Parasites No 2 lures viewers into her scientifically impossible worlds.


Nancy Scherl
USA



Biography: Nancy Scherl is a fine art portrait photographer based in New York City. Stylistically, Nancy emulates cinema verité, particularly for her portrait series, often posing her subjects, offering subtle direction, and asking them to “act out” what they experience when they’re in a specific setting. The setting is frequently enhanced with formal lighting to create a specific ambience. Her portraits often invoke metaphor and social commentary. *(Though Nancy blurs the boundaries between pictorial, social documentary and street genres in much of her work, she distinguishes between her staged...