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Gold 2022 Fine Art / Abstract

Cryos-Scapes

  • Photographer
    Stephen Spartana
  • Agency / Studio
    Spartana Photography
  • Prize
    Gold in Fine Art / Abstract
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Water is an amazing compound with many unique properties. The most fascinating being that water expands when transferring to its solid state – ice, unlike any other compound. This color series is an allegory of the theme of expansion and stasis. I’ve photographically captured a frozen scene at lakes edge and the actual freezing process is revealed in the image. Expansion and movement of floating elements arrested to stillness, freezing a scene of organic material layered in ice. Light dances across the surface and penetrates below exposing a hidden world, creating elegant icescapes.

  • Biography
    Art became important to me at an early age with an interest in photography. I graduated in 1983 from the BFA Program in Photography at the Maryland Institute College of Art which introduced him to the work and philosophies of influential artists: Irving Penn’s quality of light; Cartier-Bresson’s composition, use of space, and "the decisive moment”; Pete Turner, who felt that the transparency was not the end product, but just the beginning; and lastly Georgia O’Keeffe’s paintings of flowers and nature were a revelation, inspiring me to look closer at the hidden beauty of the natural world.
  • Awards
    October 2025 Lorenzo il Magnifico" Award, Florence Biennale, Photography (4th Prize). Sept. Honorable Mention B&W Spyder Awards Sept 2025 Silver Award, best in subcategory Abstract Fine Art BIFA Sept 2025 HM BIFA Abstract Fine art Ethereal Entity May 2025 Honorable Mention Jan. 2024 Bronze Metal TIFA, Ab Fine Art Yin Yang Jan. 2024 Honorable Mention TIFA, Walking in Spaces, Ab Fine Art Dec. 2023 Honorable Mention BIFA, Fine Art, Portugal Dec.2023 HM BIFA Fine Art, Yin Yang Sept. 26 2023 Silver Award Sparks Analog International Awards, Dec. 2022 Honorable Mention TIFA World Below 0° Nov. 2022 Gold Medal BIFA abstract art March 2022 Nominated Color Awards for abstract fine art, “Anima” Dec. 18, 2021 Bronze Award TIFA, Abstract Fine Art “Nature in Layers” July 5th 2021 Bronze Metal Moscow International Foto Awards , Fine Art Abstract “Night Hat” Jan.22 Bronze Award 2021 TIFA Nature “Aging With Grace” Dec. 10 HM BIFA series “Nature in Layers” *Dec. 10 HM BIFA series “Drifting Through Time” *Aug. 4,2020 Finalist UMBRA Inter. Photography Awards 2019-2020 *June 2 HM MIFA abstract art for the series “Time Space” *March 16, Nomination 13th Annual Color Awards, Abstract Art *Jan. 21 Honorable Mention, CFA Artist of the Year award for “Hand-Up” *Dec 27 1st place award TIFA for Fine Art for “Life in Layers” *Dec. 27 Gold Medal Award TIFA, Abstract Fine Art “Life in Layers” HM BIFA Honorable Mention Budapest International Awards “Intertwined Series” * September 19 - Oct. 8: 2nd place “Contrive” National Juried Show d’Art Center, Norfolk, VA. * June 18 Prix de la Photographie de Paris Honorable mention Abstract art * May 22 Moscow International Foto Awards Honorable mention abstract art for the series, “Intertwined” April 30 Finalist in the Siena International Photo Awards 2019 Nomination for the 12th Annual Color Awards, Nude category “Water Balance” May 1, 2018 Bronze Award for Abstract Fine Art Moscow International Foto Awards 2018 for series “Interwoven”

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