Conceptual nominee

My life is a collage. Where I wake and fall asleep blends into a kaleidoscope of faces, sounds and experiences. Yet amongst the chaos, I find a calm - zoom out far enough and patterns begin to appear. Deconstruction. Reconstruction. Synergy between old and new, micro and macro. A surreal harmony.

Although each image has it’s own story to tell, all have gone through the same process of construction - three layers of life comprised of my own photography and found footage - stitched together into a single new document, a still life depicting how cultures, memories and phenomenon drift and blur between one another as life echoes into the future.

Allan Dransfield (b.1981) is a British visual artist and photographer. He holds an Mdes from Coventry University in automotive design, a field in which he worked for more than a decade.
In 2013-15 he embarked on an overland world odyssey resulting in Lifekollektiv - a creative journal drifting between mediums as as it explores the colourful spectrum where social documentary meets the arts.
Allan has exhibited in Italy and Germany, published two photobooks and received several international photography decorations including IPA Int’l photography awards and Wanderlust travel photo of the year.
Allan is currently based in Łódź, Poland