2nd place
silver star award
massimiliano sticca
italy 
Photo © massimiliano sticca
title
Sadhu & Motorbike
After I took the photo, he asked me to come closer to show him the pictures. I did that and he blessed me. It was a nice experience. I prefer to shoot people only after interacting. Just in a few cases, like with the sadhu and motorbike, I preferred to shoot without asking
In the last months of 2014, toghether with the italian photographer Federico Tardito found B#Visual, a new concept of photo agency that provides not only images but ideas , innovation and communication.
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entry description
This photo of a sadhu was taken in Allahabad at Maha Kumbh Mela 2013. I was walking along a road in Kumbh when I saw the bike and sadhu near the tent. I stopped walking and waited. The sadhu left the tent and went near the motorbike. I took a step forward to get closer to the subject (I was taking the photo with a 14-24mm very wide optic) and I took the photo. The sadhu realized what happened only when the photo was taken, maybe for the best since I was able to catch his expression in a better way.After I took the photo, he asked me to come closer to show him the pictures. I did that and he blessed me. It was a nice experience. I prefer to shoot people only after interacting. Just in a few cases, like with the sadhu and motorbike, I preferred to shoot without asking
about the photographer
Born in Turin on the 6th of Novembre 1981, he’s a photographer mainly skilled in interior, editorial and commercial photography with a fondness for nature photography, based in Milan and Turin. At the moment he collaborates with the photo agencies IPA Press (IT) and ZumaPress (USA). He approaches to photography in 1995 during a journey in Kenya, where he starts taking pictures with his father’s camera, a F401. After that experience his passion for photography begins; thus after high school he decides to turns his hobby into a proper job, entering a whole brand new world pretty hard to penetrate, keeping both his passion for photography and his skills as informatic consultant on C.m.s. opensource systems. Since 1995, thanks to his parent’s passion, he travels across several countries, such as South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Egypt, Malaysia, Thailand and U.S.A., developing a certain tendency towards Nature Photography and Reportage.In the last months of 2014, toghether with the italian photographer Federico Tardito found B#Visual, a new concept of photo agency that provides not only images but ideas , innovation and communication.
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