2025 Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize

Between Wakefulness and Sleep

David Rosetzky

Between Wakefulness and Sleep, 2024 archival pigment print 62.5 x 41 cm

'Between Wakefulness and Sleep' explores gender identity and dream states through a double exposure photograph of a naked male torso holding a shell. Evoking classical forms and surrealism, the work uses experimental analogue film processes to blur boundaries of body, desire, and self. It embraces non-heteronormative ambiguity, offering resistance to cultural norms through a poetic approach to photography and the imaging of layered perception.