ENR's 2018 Construction Photography Contest Winners
Photographer Debbie Skrynski’s day job as a nine-year driver for Dimension Fabricators led to her adopting photography as an added function for the rebar maker—and as a passion . Here, workers of specialty contractor American Pile & Foundation rig a just-delivered drilled-shaft rebar cage at Newark, N.J., airport’s $2.7-billion new terminal site. “I looked down inside the cage just as ironworkers were reaching in to hook the shackle ... and I had my shot!” says Skrynski, adding the image “depicts the teamwork required” in placing cages. Her photo mentor and frequent passenger was the late Roy Stevens, father of Dimension founder Scott Stevens and himself a past ENR photo contest winner, says firm media specialist Lindsey Stevens, who praises Skrynski’s “ability to connect with people.”
ENR’s annual photo contest shows readers and online viewers how team effort, like the scene pictured above, gets construction projects done.
But the images, in many cases, are themselves products of individuals connecting. That link between the photo artist and his or her jobsite subject, even unplanned and for a brief few seconds, can tell a unique story that benefits both—whether it’s the electrical crew disappearing into tight quarters, the lined face of a veteran superintendent or the energy of an eager craftworker.
A woman ironworker helps a photographer maneuver for better vantage in an off-limits work area, producing a winning image for him and new industry status for her and peers.
Repeat contest winner Marie Tagudena put it just right, noting how her photo taken on the Gerald Desmond bridge in California would be just “falsework and beams” without the timing of a worker who entered the shot at the perfect moment to show “that sense of movement, of work being done.”
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