honorable mention
Roberto Spotti italy
title
The Harmony of Beauty
The figure "jumps" from the blank sheet without edges or little recognizable trying to convey the principle of movement to the observer.
What we see in the images presented are really the moments that escape, captured by the photographic medium, which contain the whole, their fate; moments that, as they always have something impenetrable, incomprehensible in their deepest meaning, are something that comes to us or we can follow up.
I pursue naturalism as a style able to live immediately the very meaning of our lives, deeply true, more faithful to the reality than any imitation. It has, in fact, not only truth, but it is the truth.
So I'm looking for the truth, the harmony, out of which we cannot find beauty.
Roberto Spotti
Milano 16 11 1955
My first interest in photography started in 1970 and it remained just a hobby until 1973.
In the summer of the same year I commenced my work as an assistant in different studios where I worked with the possibility to follow photography and cinema.
In 1975 I began my collaboration towards the studio of the photographer Aldo Ballo where I could study in depth the technique of light in studio and the optical bench of large size.
Afterwards I worked as a freelancer with several photographic studios and only in 1979 I began to realize on my own several reportages in North Europe, North and Central Africa, the Extreme Orient, Latin America and the U.S.A.
Afterwards I collaborated as a freelancer to realize photographic services of still life, furniture, advertising.
Currently free from commercial works, I perform personal research addressed mainly to art galleries
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entry description
In this series of images, I try to capture the substantial form of the body by exploring its physical and anathomical configuration without leaving out the particular postures that depend from the body movements.The figure "jumps" from the blank sheet without edges or little recognizable trying to convey the principle of movement to the observer.
What we see in the images presented are really the moments that escape, captured by the photographic medium, which contain the whole, their fate; moments that, as they always have something impenetrable, incomprehensible in their deepest meaning, are something that comes to us or we can follow up.
I pursue naturalism as a style able to live immediately the very meaning of our lives, deeply true, more faithful to the reality than any imitation. It has, in fact, not only truth, but it is the truth.
So I'm looking for the truth, the harmony, out of which we cannot find beauty.
Roberto Spotti
about the photographer
Roberto SpottiMilano 16 11 1955
My first interest in photography started in 1970 and it remained just a hobby until 1973.
In the summer of the same year I commenced my work as an assistant in different studios where I worked with the possibility to follow photography and cinema.
In 1975 I began my collaboration towards the studio of the photographer Aldo Ballo where I could study in depth the technique of light in studio and the optical bench of large size.
Afterwards I worked as a freelancer with several photographic studios and only in 1979 I began to realize on my own several reportages in North Europe, North and Central Africa, the Extreme Orient, Latin America and the U.S.A.
Afterwards I collaborated as a freelancer to realize photographic services of still life, furniture, advertising.
Currently free from commercial works, I perform personal research addressed mainly to art galleries
back to gallery