Lower School House Photo competition: The human condition
By Ms Spencer - Jolly
1st Place Family Dinner - Lucian Postan (7S) Spenser Carefully crafted collective scenes of families all staring at mobile phones during a meal; still - life depictions of the waste we leave behind us; unsuspecting subjects captured covertly; imaginatively edited self - portraits: the Lower School House Photography competition provoked contemplation on the state of ‘ The Human Condition ’ in the 21st century. There were some fantastic causes for optimism – scenes of familial love and connection; there were entries which tapped into the social isolation many feel in our increasingly digitised existence. We really enjoyed the wide range of thematic interpretations. Lucian Postan in 7S (Spenser) was awarded first place for his dramatically lit photograph of family members hunched over their phones at a candle lit dinner table, making reference to the composition and colours of John Wright of Derby ’ s paintings. Fraser Norfolk, also in 7S (Marlowe) took third place for an exposition of a similar theme. William Beresford in 8L (Raleigh) came second for his multiple - exposure self - portrait which had resonances of the claustrophobia many of us felt during lockdown, when confined to small indoor spaces for months.
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