honorable mention
Fabio Moscatelli italy
title
I am Gioele
He likes water and horses.
And he likes to feed his plastic seals.
He, well he is a guy of few words.
But on his notebook he writes long and complex stories about misterious animals: domestic lions anacondas and spider-wolves.
He draws cooking ducks and zebras with coloured stripes.
But then, often, he crumples the drawings because he doesn't want that someone sees them.
Inside, Gioele has a wide world.
The only thing is that in his world nobody can come in.
Gioele is autistic, which means that he is inside a house without a door: from the inside you can't go out and from the outside you don't know how to go through the doorway.
But he stays at the window, looking, observing.
And from there, he takes pictures of the world like he sees it: too close or too far, often moving fastly, sometimes as a friend, sometimes impossible to decode.
Gioele also likes that others look back to him, and this is the way the project is born.
From the exchange of the points of view between a photographer, that wants to try to go closer to the difficult inner -part, and a kid who wants to communicate with an outside world, difficult to reach.
Photography becomes an instrument of mutual comprehension, a visual and visionary territory where to meet and project at the outside voiceless sensations and emotions.
But photography is also the guiding string of an educational story
A delicate and complex formation: non only the one of an eleven year old child that slowly is changing into a man, but also the one of a special humain beeing that grows comparing himself with a world from which is percieved as different and an alien.
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entry description
Gioele likes to change his shoes.He likes water and horses.
And he likes to feed his plastic seals.
He, well he is a guy of few words.
But on his notebook he writes long and complex stories about misterious animals: domestic lions anacondas and spider-wolves.
He draws cooking ducks and zebras with coloured stripes.
But then, often, he crumples the drawings because he doesn't want that someone sees them.
Inside, Gioele has a wide world.
The only thing is that in his world nobody can come in.
Gioele is autistic, which means that he is inside a house without a door: from the inside you can't go out and from the outside you don't know how to go through the doorway.
But he stays at the window, looking, observing.
And from there, he takes pictures of the world like he sees it: too close or too far, often moving fastly, sometimes as a friend, sometimes impossible to decode.
Gioele also likes that others look back to him, and this is the way the project is born.
From the exchange of the points of view between a photographer, that wants to try to go closer to the difficult inner -part, and a kid who wants to communicate with an outside world, difficult to reach.
Photography becomes an instrument of mutual comprehension, a visual and visionary territory where to meet and project at the outside voiceless sensations and emotions.
But photography is also the guiding string of an educational story
A delicate and complex formation: non only the one of an eleven year old child that slowly is changing into a man, but also the one of a special humain beeing that grows comparing himself with a world from which is percieved as different and an alien.
about the photographer
Born in Rome, he lives in his hometown. He started taking photographs at age 25, as a studio & ceremony assistant, and then approach the social and ethnological reportage photography. He obtained his first certificate in Reportage at Graffiti in Rome. In 2012 he won the second prize of the scholarship named Rolando Fava and, in the same year, Scuola Romana di Fotografia, after he submitted them the project “Fronte del Porto“, assign him a scholarship for a Master of Reportage. In 2013, he was finalist in the Leica Award and winner of National Geographic competition in Portraits category. In 2014 takes part in the realization of the CEI‘s photographic campaign “Chiedilo a Loro“. He has published on Lens Culture, Phnom Magazine, Magazine Shoot and Private International Review Of Photography. In 2014 he won Moscow International Foto Awards’14 in Book : Documentary category. He is contributor for Echo Agency.back to gallery