Afterglow, one of the photos from Amy Friend's award-winning series Dare Alla Luce. 
Afterglow, one of the photos from Amy Friend's award-winning series Dare Alla Luce.
A Brock University visual arts professor will see a series of her photographs bound in a book after they caught the eyes of judges in an international competition.
Amy Friend’s sepia-toned Dare Alla Luce, a collection of vintage photographs that have been manipulated with light, won the Critical Mass Book Award last month. The 28 photos will be published by arts non-profit Photolucida, which provides platforms to grow and foster the photography community.
The Critical Mass Awards provide emerging and mid-career artists from around the world with career-building opportunities.
Friend has worked on Dare Alla Luce for the past three years, after she collected vintage photographs from anonymous and personal sources.
“Through hand-manipulated interventions I altered and subsequently re-photographed the images, re-making photographs that oscillate between what is present and what is absent,” Friend wrote about the Dare Alla Luce, which is Italian for ‘to bring to light.’
“I aim to comment on the fragile quality of the photographic object but also on the equal fragility of our lives, our history. All are lost so easily.”
