Hey, Hot Shot! Entries: Finn O’Hara
Ice Fishing Two by Finn O’Hara
Aspiring Spring Hot Shot Finn O’Hara comes to us from Toronto. Submitting from his series made in the Canadian Arctic, Finn is interested in access to cultures that are generally unfamiliar to the outsiders. Attributing his success within the project to dedicated research, discussion and, he admits, blind luck, he hopes to capture the remote, obscure, and the little known. From his statement:
As polar issues such as global warming become more important, I hope to document the people of the Arctic and their emerging society. The elders of Cambridge Bay have seen the transformation of their society from one in which small family groups lived in nomadic camps, to a far more modern community life. In a single Arctic lifetime, more has changed for them in one generation than what has occurred over several thousand years for “western society�. As they embrace traditional knowledge and values, and the new opportunities presented to them by advanced technologies, I hope to document this social transformation through a combination of portraiture and landscape photographs.
Finn also shared with us his appreciation of photography not only as a “beautiful art” with endlessly exciting and practical tools, such as the Hasselblad he romances, but as a multifaceted job with endless opportunities to be jumped upon.
So jump on this one… Enter today.
