Fine Art nominee

I began photographing people as a way to understand them and to understand myself; to learn about and meet new friends through portraiture. When I moved to England, I was removed from the context that those images—images that I
came to cherish for the camaraderie they engendered—created, and was left with a sense of loss for people I’d known so fleetingly. The Ruined Map is a response to this loss, and is a reapproach to what I find so intriguing about collage: its ability to comment on the loss of indentity and meaning through the act of physical destruction, an act that leaves instead an ache for something no longer comprehensible. By destroying these images, I have completed them.

Anthony Gerace is a photographer and artist based in London, working primarily with collage, portraiture and landscape. His work is concerned with the effects of time on objects and the transient nature of memory and experience. Anthony has been featured in many publications, including Elephant, IdN, It’s Nice That and Of the Afternoon. His commissioned work has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Guardian, the New Republic, Little White Lies, the Travel Almanac, PORT, and Oh Comely, among others. He has shown internationally, in the UK, Canada, America and Germany, and his most recent solo show, There Must Be More to Life Than This, opened in November 2015 in Milan. He is originally from Toronto, Ontario.