honorable mention
Catia Mencacci italy
title
A meter away - Love in the time of Coronavirus
I was looking at old postcards from the 1920s and 1930s purchased at a flea market stall, depicting couples of movie stars in poses of tender lovers.
One of the rules imposed on the population right away to limit the spread of the pandemic was to keep "one meter away" between individuals, as well as to "stay home" as much as possible: hence my thoughts on how difficult it was for non-cohabiting lovers (beyond all other problems) to adapt to these directives, dutiful and inescapable.
The postcards were processed with the scanner, using the technique (to say the least painstaking) of manual dragging to create this detachment effect between the two models photographed right at that precise point, after which they were re-proportioned and printed. I subsequently aged the photos manually and photographed them again. With a brief search, I was able to trace a good part of the titles of the films played by the actors in the scenes photographed on the postcards.
I hope soon that a vaccine is found and that everyone can regain the pleasure of physical contact, not necessarily connected to the feeling of love, which is natural among individuals.
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entry description
The idea arose during the national and then wolrlwide emergency caused by the spread of Covid-19 virus.I was looking at old postcards from the 1920s and 1930s purchased at a flea market stall, depicting couples of movie stars in poses of tender lovers.
One of the rules imposed on the population right away to limit the spread of the pandemic was to keep "one meter away" between individuals, as well as to "stay home" as much as possible: hence my thoughts on how difficult it was for non-cohabiting lovers (beyond all other problems) to adapt to these directives, dutiful and inescapable.
The postcards were processed with the scanner, using the technique (to say the least painstaking) of manual dragging to create this detachment effect between the two models photographed right at that precise point, after which they were re-proportioned and printed. I subsequently aged the photos manually and photographed them again. With a brief search, I was able to trace a good part of the titles of the films played by the actors in the scenes photographed on the postcards.
I hope soon that a vaccine is found and that everyone can regain the pleasure of physical contact, not necessarily connected to the feeling of love, which is natural among individuals.
about the photographer
Catia Mencacci approached to the photography world in 2012, as an adult. The inscription on her first photo course is a joke. Without any knowledge in photographic material and having never felt the need to take pictures before then, partecipates in early teachings without having a camera. Her interest became a real passion very early. She was mostly intersted to an impressionistic, oniric world in which the image brings the soul of the observer in a magical world: a world made of emotions and feelings such a solitude, concern and melancholy. She exposed in personal and collective exhibitionsback to gallery