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Silver 2024 Special / Digitally Enhanced

Future Farming

  • Photographer
    Irina Petrova Adamatzky
  • Prize
    Silver in Special / Digitally Enhanced

In a rural community, traditional farming practices led to environmental damage. Despite calls for change, progress was slow. Crop failures and barren lands ensued, prompting farmers to adapt with hazmat suits and drones. The once-idyllic countryside now resembled a dystopian landscape, highlighting the consequences of unsustainable farming.

Irina Petrova is an internationally published and award winning photographer and artist. She specializes in wild life micro-photography and science fiction inspired installations organically integrating living and artificial entities. A unique feature of her work is she only uses retro manual focus lenses to share the wonders of the world. She has won a substantial number of awards and prizes, including 3 recent awards in BIFA 2020, winner of FEP Awards 2021 Nature Golden Camera and ND Discovery of the Year in category Nature 2019.