Judges’ & Readers’ Choice Winner: Stephanie Saujon Baltz: “Baby Bowie”
“I take more photos than any human should,” says Stephanie Saujon Baltz, who’s been doing so for as long as she can remember and professionally for about four years. “I have file cabinets of negatives and external hard drives full of tens of thousands of images.” She needed just one to take our judges’ prize.
One day at Saujon Baltz’s studio, model Lux-O-Matic, a dancer with Music City Burlesque, mentioned the website Vinyl Sleeve Heads, which features people posing with album covers and creatively filling out the space beyond the frame. The two started digging through Saujon Baltz’s collection — she has a lot of records, too — to find a photogenic sleeve. Thinking that Bowie’s Space Oddity was a good match for one of Lux’s stage costumes, they started snapping photos. It wasn’t until afterward that they thought about the serendipity of the choice.
"We realized Space Oddity was perfect,” Saujon Baltz says, “because Lux thinks being pregnant is like having an alien experience." In this case, a close encounter that inspired quite a reaction from ground control.
Stephanie Saujon Baltz
“Baby Bowie”
Alan Wieme
Gilligan’s in Murfreesboro
Jamie Goodsell
Nashville
Jolan Farkas
“Radar Love,” Natchez Trace Parkway
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Andri Alexandrou
West Nashville
Eva Maria Wood
Intersection of Mack Hatcher Memorial Parkway and Franklin Road
Anna Arata
Centennial Park
Phillip Chadwell
East Nashville
Doug Lehmann
Exit/In
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Jamie Goodsell
Nashville
Chris Wage
Ramb0 Samb0 of the Nashville Rollergirls
Helen Bird
Dickerson Road
Judd Fuller
East Nashville
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Garth Shaw
Roof of Spence Manor, dedicated in memory of Patsi Bale Cox
Ian Bush
12th and Porter
Gavin Ivester
Baseball fields behind Harpeth Hills Church of Christ
Doug Lehmann
Crema
Sarah McDonald
Nashville thrift store
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Alan Wieme
Nashville Arcade
Lydia Henderson
Smyrna
Miles Price
Belmont Boulevard
High Gravity Photography
Second Avenue, Nashville
Ryan Burkholder
“Emerson in Black & White,” Bellevue
Price Harrison
Cross Plains, Tenn.
Price Harrison
51st Avenue North and Centennial Boulevard
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Judges’ Winner: Nashville Eyesores
Angie K. Harris
Germantown, Nashville
Chris Wage
Franklin Road, Nashville
Kevin Barnett
21st Avenue and Scarritt Place
John “Bodie” Beaudin
Fifth Avenue and Demonbreun
Judd Fuller
East Nashville
Ann Richardson
Brentwood
Meet the Judges...
Michael W. Bunch
Photographer
SouthComm
Eric England
Photographer
SouthComm
Elizabeth Jones
Art Director
Nashville Scene
Peter Nash
Photographer
Portraits in Fur
Amelia Winger-Bearskin
Assistant professor of film and studio art at Vanderbilt University
