Recent Photography Graduate Included in Highly Prestigious Prize
Roots Whisper to Deaf Ears | by Madalynne Meeker
Exciting news! Recent Photography graduate Madalynne Meeker was selected for Lenscratch’s Student Prize 2025: Top 25 to Watch.
Lenscratch is a daily journal that explores contemporary fine art photography and offers opportunities for exposure and community.
Lenscratch is not only is an incredibly important platform for contemporary photography; the 18 jurors who selected the top 25 students hold significant roles throughout the medium, whether as artists, educators, curators, or editors. Hundreds of students from prestigious programs applied for consideration in the Lenscratch Student Prize 2025 and only 25 finalists were selected.
Madalynne’s work, part of her Fading Roots collection, focuses on wetland ecosystems and changes that are occurring and “examines this erasure, layering quiet landscapes with historic, present, and projected future maps of wetland loss, interwoven with excerpts from naturalists Charles Darwin and Eugene Odum. These embedded maps and texts visualize the fragility of these vanishing environments and if this trajectory continues, it is estimated over 1.34 million acres of wetlands in the southern United States will disappear within the next 20 years”.
Congratulations Madalynne on this wonderful achievement!
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