On The Way to Bluedom Longlisted in the 2025 Booooooom Photo Awards
I’m very pleased to share that my artwork On The Way to Bluedom has been selected for the longlist of the 2025 Booooooom Photo Awards.
It is always encouraging when a work finds resonance beyond the studio, beyond the website, and beyond the immediate circle of people who already know what I do. This recognition feels particularly meaningful because Booooooom has, over many years, become a highly visible international platform for contemporary art and photography. Founded in 2008 by Vancouver artist Jeff Hamada, it describes itself as Canada’s highest-traffic art platform and as an authoritative voice in contemporary art that has helped bring emerging artists to international attention.
The scale of this year’s awards also gives the longlisting real weight. On its 2025 Photo Awards page, Booooooom says that the 200 longlisted images were selected from submissions comprising nearly 20,000 photographs. To have On The Way to Bluedom included in that field is something I’m genuinely proud of.
What I like about this recognition is that it speaks to the life of the image itself. On The Way to Bluedom has always felt to me like a work suspended between observation and imagination. It begins in the real world — as my works do — with water, reflection, vessel, mast and sail. But once the image settles into itself, it becomes something else. The yacht seems less like an object on water and more like a figure travelling into atmosphere, into feeling, into pure blue.
That blue matters. It carries a painterly charge for me, and it is one of the reasons the work took the title it did. There is in it, for me, an echo of Yves Klein’s use of blue — not as description, but as immersion, emotion and state of mind. On my artwork page, the work sits within that lineage of perception, atmosphere and abstraction that so often underpins what I do.
So I’m grateful to Levi and the Booooooom team for including the work in this year’s longlist, and pleased to see it sitting within such a strong international field.
You can view the artwork here:
On The Way to Bluedom
