1st place
gold star award
Simone Tramonte
italy
title
White Gold
The mine Racalmuto in Sicily, it’s one more rich deposits of salt in Europe: a huge lens of rock salt contained in the heart of a mountain.
Here it continues to resist the mining culture of Sicily through which a territory marked by a very high unemployment rate are still working and support dozens of families of miners.
Going down in the mine, leaving behind the light, to enter into the bowels of the earth, where the work of man has created miles of tunnels, which penetrate the mountain for hundreds of meters below the surface. The mine is like a womb, it is the 'beginning', it’s here that there was the sea millions of years ago, when there was still no trace of man. It's a lunar landscape, where the lights of machinery, completely covered by a white powder, seem eyes of unknown creatures. It is thanks to the courage, passion and professionalism of these men that at every moment the rebirth of a particle of the universe is accomplished.
He began photographic studies with particular attention to social and anthropological issues.
Involved in documentary photography since the 2007, his work is focused to documenting contemporary issues and the profound cultural changes.
Simone's work has appeared in some publications, including cui Internazionale, National Geographic, Geo, Southeast Asia Globe, Indipendent, Sguardi, The Australian, The Guardian, InsideArt, The Telegraph, CameraRaw, TheTripMagazine.
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entry description
ITALY - Sicily - RacalmutoThe mine Racalmuto in Sicily, it’s one more rich deposits of salt in Europe: a huge lens of rock salt contained in the heart of a mountain.
Here it continues to resist the mining culture of Sicily through which a territory marked by a very high unemployment rate are still working and support dozens of families of miners.
Going down in the mine, leaving behind the light, to enter into the bowels of the earth, where the work of man has created miles of tunnels, which penetrate the mountain for hundreds of meters below the surface. The mine is like a womb, it is the 'beginning', it’s here that there was the sea millions of years ago, when there was still no trace of man. It's a lunar landscape, where the lights of machinery, completely covered by a white powder, seem eyes of unknown creatures. It is thanks to the courage, passion and professionalism of these men that at every moment the rebirth of a particle of the universe is accomplished.
about the photographer
Simone Tramonte is a freelance photojournalist, based in Italy.He began photographic studies with particular attention to social and anthropological issues.
Involved in documentary photography since the 2007, his work is focused to documenting contemporary issues and the profound cultural changes.
Simone's work has appeared in some publications, including cui Internazionale, National Geographic, Geo, Southeast Asia Globe, Indipendent, Sguardi, The Australian, The Guardian, InsideArt, The Telegraph, CameraRaw, TheTripMagazine.
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