honorable mention
Emiliano Pinnizzotto italy
title
Modern Monoliths
The Monoliths were usually immense, imposing and very heavy stones. Our ancestors lifted them from the ground with great difficulty, worked them or molded them, and placed them in a place chosen as an indelible mark of their passage on this earth. The monoliths were idolized, becoming not only prehistoric works of art but sacred objects, respected as divinities.
Nowadays, monoliths can be reinterpreted by the wonders of architectural works. Increasingly complex to realize, monumental works that change the face of our cities, palaces, bridges, museums, become modern artworks
The images in this series want to enhance and reinterpret the architectural idea, with the use of light, with the language of black and white, and with a shot that projects them upward almost to clash with the sky, just like the ancient monoliths.
I started to taking pictures since as a child. Around 16 years old i began to direct my passion toward photo-reportage
especially in social, anthropology, and travel photography. i really like the traditional and spiritual aspect of different
people and culture that i meet in journey. I always use the natural light present in the place when i take pictures and for
the digital postproduction i use only the techniques similar at those possible in the "darkroom".
I use both digital and analogic film reflex camera.
I have published my images in several newspaper and magazine in italy, and some images in Photographic Book edited
by Graffiti Press Agency which i collaborate from some years.
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entry description
MODERN MONOLITHSThe Monoliths were usually immense, imposing and very heavy stones. Our ancestors lifted them from the ground with great difficulty, worked them or molded them, and placed them in a place chosen as an indelible mark of their passage on this earth. The monoliths were idolized, becoming not only prehistoric works of art but sacred objects, respected as divinities.
Nowadays, monoliths can be reinterpreted by the wonders of architectural works. Increasingly complex to realize, monumental works that change the face of our cities, palaces, bridges, museums, become modern artworks
The images in this series want to enhance and reinterpret the architectural idea, with the use of light, with the language of black and white, and with a shot that projects them upward almost to clash with the sky, just like the ancient monoliths.
about the photographer
was born in Rome on 25 June 1983.I started to taking pictures since as a child. Around 16 years old i began to direct my passion toward photo-reportage
especially in social, anthropology, and travel photography. i really like the traditional and spiritual aspect of different
people and culture that i meet in journey. I always use the natural light present in the place when i take pictures and for
the digital postproduction i use only the techniques similar at those possible in the "darkroom".
I use both digital and analogic film reflex camera.
I have published my images in several newspaper and magazine in italy, and some images in Photographic Book edited
by Graffiti Press Agency which i collaborate from some years.
back to gallery