After receiving over 2,600 submissions from a wide range of digital artists, four winners have been chosen to have their cover art represent each of the four creative collections on Alamy: Ultimate, Vital, Uncut and Foundation.
The new collections are designed to help creatives to take their work further in line with the recent Alamy campaign premise of, how far will you go? The original cover art for them was created by Alamy but this competition gave creatives a chance to reimagine them in their own way.
Alamy’s creative collections
Here are the current Alamy creative collections and their respective cover art collages.
Ultimate
The top, hand-selected imagery that tells a story. It’s about bringing a cinematic vision to stock imagery, with edge and artistic flair.
Vital
High-end creative collection built on authenticity and created with emerging trends. What you would consider The Classics – high quality classics.
Uncut
Raw, random and subversive. Images you won’t see elsewhere. Embracing the philosophy of “beauty in the imperfection”.
Foundation
Elementary stock imagery perfect for composites, clean and simple being the motto. Often viewed to be more sparse than the other categories.
Collage competition winners
Ultimate winner
Pushing the boundaries of possibility, Larisa Marariu blurs the line between reality and fantasy in a way that instantly catches the eye. Her work has that ephemeral quality of being different yet somehow familiar.
What Larisa said about the piece…somewhat cryptically: “I’m not big with words, I do what I do to express how I’m feeling inside. I create a peaceful place for a chaotic mind to take a rest.”
Vital winner
Authenticity is the defining feature of the Vital collection. Teresa Orazio’s collage isn’t afraid to show its scars, showing clear cuts and use of textures while harbouring a voguish style.
Teresa said of collage: “Mostly I worked on key words such as trendy, authentic, classic, quality, emerging.”
Uncut winner
By blending a range of cut-outs, Cecilia Triana’s collage is both raw and subversive. Between the botanical headdress and the slightly jagged lines, there’s a hallucinatory quality that forces you to see differently.
Ceci had some hard truths she wanted to show us: “This collage is a representation of self-esteem and as even though vulnerable or fractured we put our smile on the world.”
Foundation winner
Zeren Badar’s collage embodies the spirit of Foundation. There’s simplicity in the honest way it’s laid out, with microchips in place of an ear and drop shadows that clearly reveal layers of content.
Zeren wanted to leave us with some of life’s biggest questions: “Is technology changing us? Is the future promising us more or less? All these remain to be seen and highly debated.”
In the coming weeks, we’ll be talking to each winner to find out more about them, their work, and how they came up with their unique ideas.