Street Photography nominee

Emotional Metadata is a series of fine art photography projects which are an intimate exploration in expressing the world not as it is seen, but as it’s deeply felt.

These works are a visual response the Japanese concept of Wabi-sabi (侘び寂び):

An aesthetic or world view characterised by finding beauty in imperfection, impermanence, or simplicity.

Conceptually I capture fleeting fragments of impermanence with an aesthetic which embraces decontextualisation, simplicity and imperfection.

Whilst imbued with personal meaning, metaphor and allegory, the viewer is invited make their own interpretation of each image & may find meaning and symbolism that the artist never intended.

I’m Simon Ellingworth a full time photography educator & one to one mentor, with over a decades experience creating and delivering education for The Royal Photographic Society, I specialise in street, black and white photograph, composition, gestalt theory available light portraiture.

I have 26 x International photography awards including 6 x ‘Mono Vision Awards’, 3 x ‘Monochrome Awards’, 3 x ‘Sony Awards’ and most recently, 1st place in the highly contested ‘2024 International Photography Awards’ in the professional category; selected from 14,000 entries from more than 100 countries.