honorable mention
Giuseppe Di Giulio italy
title
Wood
"Wood is a noble and strange material,
it is no longer earth and is not yet flesh;
it is like milk that is not blood
but it is already more than water."
Tree, stick, spear, hut, fire, table, house, ship, paper, bridge, wagon, violin, pipe, barrel, cradle, cross ... coffin.
No other material better represents the concepts of solidity and ductility, enhancing the human expertise in transforming matter by domesticating it to his own needs.
As an exception, from veined log to finished work, tool or artwork, wood does not lose the ability to be living material.
At each stage of its transformation path, it emanates the scent of the simple and intimate nature of things and the texture of veins and knots makes it vibrant with energy.
Smooth or rough, this material transmits to the touch the pleasure of caressing a living entity. The wood is so alive that while you touch it you have the impression that it returns the caress.
He studied and worked as an engineer in Rome from 1996 to 2018, dealing with roads, bridges and galleries in Italy. Since 2019 he lives and works in Turin.
He started taking pictures in 2001 during university to create a magazine for a student association.
His first camera was an analogue Nikon F80, borrowed from his uncle, by which he learned photographic technique from self-taught. After graduation, with an analogue Nikon F75 he made his first personal works and got passionate about black and white photography.
In 2009 he held his first show in a club in Rome and the photo "the caress of the wind" was selected among the finalist works of the Metro Photo Challenge Italy.
He keeps on taking pictures focusing his study on the realization of black and white projects, with an approach based on abstraction and evocation that leads images away from the real world, in the space of thoughts, emotions and memories.
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entry description
WOOD"Wood is a noble and strange material,
it is no longer earth and is not yet flesh;
it is like milk that is not blood
but it is already more than water."
Tree, stick, spear, hut, fire, table, house, ship, paper, bridge, wagon, violin, pipe, barrel, cradle, cross ... coffin.
No other material better represents the concepts of solidity and ductility, enhancing the human expertise in transforming matter by domesticating it to his own needs.
As an exception, from veined log to finished work, tool or artwork, wood does not lose the ability to be living material.
At each stage of its transformation path, it emanates the scent of the simple and intimate nature of things and the texture of veins and knots makes it vibrant with energy.
Smooth or rough, this material transmits to the touch the pleasure of caressing a living entity. The wood is so alive that while you touch it you have the impression that it returns the caress.
about the photographer
Giuseppe Di Giulio (Taranto - Italy, 1977) lived until he was 18 years old in Lucania (Basilicata) in a small village near Matera.He studied and worked as an engineer in Rome from 1996 to 2018, dealing with roads, bridges and galleries in Italy. Since 2019 he lives and works in Turin.
He started taking pictures in 2001 during university to create a magazine for a student association.
His first camera was an analogue Nikon F80, borrowed from his uncle, by which he learned photographic technique from self-taught. After graduation, with an analogue Nikon F75 he made his first personal works and got passionate about black and white photography.
In 2009 he held his first show in a club in Rome and the photo "the caress of the wind" was selected among the finalist works of the Metro Photo Challenge Italy.
He keeps on taking pictures focusing his study on the realization of black and white projects, with an approach based on abstraction and evocation that leads images away from the real world, in the space of thoughts, emotions and memories.
back to gallery