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Marshall Street swimming pool, Soho, London. Photograph copyright Soo Burnell WHEN she was a girl, Soo Burnell would spend her summers swimming in the Glenogle Swim Centre in Stockbridge. She never really paid much attention her surroundings. She was too busy jumping into the water at the time. It would be years before she began to appreciate the building itself. That appreciation has turned into something of an obsession in recent years though. Now a photographer, Burnell has been busy photographing Glenogle and other Victorian-era pools including Portobello, Leith Victoria in Edinburgh and the Western Bath Club in Glasgow, as well as other ornate natatoriums in Manchester, London, as can be seen here, and Paris. Now, Burnell has gathered her images into a book, To the Water, and an accompanying exhibition at the Saorsa Art Gallery in Stockbridge which closes tomorrow.
Prize: $1000
The growing body. The excitement. Noticing the old me fading away, the beginning of a new life. The fear of losing him again, the mental scars after the miscarriage. The first strong kicks, slowly regaining trust in my body. The growing love. The healing homebirth. Meeting the soul that had been with us already all those years, finally earth side. The double sword: fatigue, heartbreaking fears, overwhelming responsibilities alternated with a soft inner peace, overpowering happiness.
Feedback from Nichole Sobecki:
“The shrouded body reminds us of the profound transition into motherhood, but also of that thin veil between life and death, the woman you are before and the woman you become. As an emotional landscape, it reveals the complexity of an often-caricatured experience: the anticipation, the hope, and the terror. The pregnant female form has been depicted countless times, yet this reimagining feels personal, honest, and brave.”