1st Place, Alberto Alicata, Italy

Alberto Alicata re-examines some of photography’s most iconic images using that icon of contemporary Western culture, Barbie. Restaging shots by such luminaries as Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Guy Bourdin, David Lachapelle and Mario Testino on sets designed in proportion with Barbie, the obsessively detailed productions invite playfulness into images that are some of the most imitated, idolised, collected and studied in history. A new dimension is created, enriching our visual memory with new images and surfacing unexpected suggestions.