2025 Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize

Warwick Gow and their Besser Blocks (left and right view)

Shea Kirk

Warwick Gow and their Besser Blocks (left and right view), 2024 pigment print on cotton rag 104 x 168 x 4 cm

Vantages is an ongoing stereoscopic portrait series shot using dual large-format cameras.
Two images of the sitter from different perspectives are simultaneously exposed onto separate sheets of black-and-white film.
The slow methodical process enables an intimate exchange, highlighting the agency between photographer and subject.
Allowing space for people to be themselves, the dual-imaging process avoids reducing the sitter to a single vantage point, and instead records them as a whole.