Hey, Hot Shot! Entries: Shelley Zatsky

Hey, Hot Shot! Entries: Shelley Zatsky

Hemingway's Tower Room (Old Man and the Sea), Finca Vigia, San Francisco de Paula, Cuba, January 2006 by Hot Shot hopeful Shelley Zatsky

Since it's Friday and the deadline is oh so close, I thought I'd throw another entry your way. Shelley Zatsky, a photographer since her high school years, began shooting her skateboarding, rock 'n rolling friends. These days she's more interested in things like impermanence and evolution. Her submission is from a body of work documenting the National Trust for Historic Preservation's 11 Most Endangered list. As she so poetically says...

These places exist simultaneously in the present and in history; they lure me in with the promise of revealing something beyond the peeling paint. They arrive on this list with the threat of obsolescence, embodying an existence between survival and loss, caught in a struggle to remember why they stand. I aim to capture that struggle, the in-between state, and in some cases, the inevitable end.