Portrait nominee

Anthophile ( Diana ) : A person who loves flowers.

The photographs were taken with a Hasselblad 500CM medium format film camera from the 1960s, with a 80mm Zeiss lens, using 120 Flash Red film that was handmade in Europe. All of the final images are straight out of the camera with no photoshop. What you shoot is what you get. The film picks up the colours of the flowers and gives the final images a beautiful patina.

Malcolm is an architect with a passion for photography. As a student studying architecture he was drawn to the black and white street photography in Paris and New York City from the 30’s-60’s in particular the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Sophie Calle, and Robert Doiseau. While studying photography at the Ontario College of Art and Design and the Ryerson School of Image Arts, he became interested in the black and white fashion/portraits/fine art photographs of Richard Avedon, Lillian Bassman, Sarah Moon, Peter Lindbergh, Irvin Penn, and Deborah Turbeville from the 60’s/70’s. Malcolm has received a number of awards for his photography including ; Black & White Zebra Awards, the International Photography Awards, the Photographer’s Forum Magazine Photography Awards, the PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris awards, Rangefinder Magazine’s “Body” competition ( Boudoir 2016 & 2017 ). His images have been featured almost every year in Black & White Magazine’s Portfolio Awards issues in August 2013 and 2015 to 2024.