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First Place – Zillah Bowes<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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‘ALLOWED’ by Zillah Bowes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Zillah Bowes is a multi-disciplinary artist with a practice in film, photography poetry, installation and sculpture, often combining disciplines. With a spiritual enquiry around climate change and biodiversity, her work frequently explores the relationship between the individual and the natural environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ALLOWED is a film using 3D-animated photographs of wild urban growth in Cardiff, Wales. Plants and flowers are allowed to grow wild, with green spaces uncut, inviting new pollinators and wildlife. Following a lyrical spoken journey through the city, ALLOWED re-examines our relationship with urban plant life in the context of biodiversity loss and the climate crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can find more of Zillah\u2019s work on her website<\/a> and Instagram.<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Second Place – Sam Williams<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Sam Williams is an artist with a multidisciplinary practice, working across moving-image, collage, choreography and text.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Deep in The Eye and The Belly\u2019 is an ongoing body of work entwining stories of cetacean bodies with imagined oceanic futures in which these bodies become shelter for humans who returned to the oceans in the wake of climate collapse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can find more of Sam\u2019s work on his website<\/a> and Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Third Place – Mithail Afrige Chowdhury<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u2018The Earth is our home\u2019 by Mithail Afrige Chowdhury<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Mithail Afrige Chowdhury is a documentary and street photographer based in Dhaka, Bangladesh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bangladesh is one of the top plastic polluted country in the world. Bangladesh generates approximately 3000 tonnes of plastic waste per day. Most of it end up in landfills and waterbodies causing serious threats to environment. Environmentalists say that plastic can exist in soil and water for years as it is not biodegradable and it may turn into leachate, get mixed with food chain and enter human body. Mitahail\u2019s photographic series demonstrate our relationship to the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can find more of Mithail\u2019s work on Instagram.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Public Vote – Luminara Star Florescu<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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