Portraits, 1st prize
Roderik Henderson
12 March, 2009
Transvoid. Williams Lake, British Columbia. Time spent in an isolated part of British Columbia in Canada drew the photographer's attention to the long hours people spend in their vehicles, suspended in a space between the point of departure and their destination.
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