Editor's Brief Winners

It’s time to reveal the winners of this month’s Editor’s Brief. This month we asked you to show us your work on the theme of Getaway. It was a hard choice but here are the three pieces we finally selected…

Overall Winner: Tina Remiz

We all loved Tina’s beautiful photographic work and enjoyed her unusual choice of a tasteful, hilarious and slightly shocking piece of nude photography to illustrate her idea of what a Getaway means. See above for the image itself and click here for the full-size version. If you check out Tina’s portfolio, you’ll see lots of other interesting work, including some fantastic illustrations.

Runner Up: Marietta Kirkbride

We really enjoyed Marietta’s poem Getaway Walking, in which she thinks about what it means to ‘get away’ on holiday. She juxtaposes beautiful and harsh imagery in an attempt to show the emotional baggage we often bring on holiday with us.

Here’s an extract:

Wind off the rolling, heaving Yorkshire Dales
Should strip hot city shackles from our wrists,
Relay them through heather shrubs into the Swale
And sink with good riddance through muddy mists.
But open places can still be prisons,
Landscapes of division, angst and schism.
The bottomless, vast, grey lake is crowned
With slate mountains of untreadable ground.

Runner Up: Mohammad Munir Malik

We particularly enjoyed Mohammad’s image of pilgrims pointing to "Way Over Yonder". Taken on top of Mount Hirah in Saudi Arabia, Mohammad captures pilgrims travelling to Mecca – this is simultaneously an ancient and modern image.