honorable mention
Ilva Beretta italy
title
Perceptions
"Perception (from the Latin perceptio, percipio) is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the environment...... Perception is not the passive receipt of these signals, but is shaped by learning, memory, expectation, and attention."
My fascination of how we perceive and see things is driven by my very poor sight. In the photos of this series, I try to portray how I perceive the essence of what I’m looking at through my nearsighted haze and understand the forms and meanings of what I see through mental adjustments of memories, general notions and my imagination. The unsharp objects acquire form and shape through layers of memory and imagination, almost in the same way we recreate our own memories, layer after layer until the object or memory has taken a new but still familiar form. I have chosen the subject of food because food is something we all can relate to and easily recognize, it has a central place in our lives.
The photos have been shot in my studio in natural light.
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entry description
PERCEPTIONS"Perception (from the Latin perceptio, percipio) is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the environment...... Perception is not the passive receipt of these signals, but is shaped by learning, memory, expectation, and attention."
My fascination of how we perceive and see things is driven by my very poor sight. In the photos of this series, I try to portray how I perceive the essence of what I’m looking at through my nearsighted haze and understand the forms and meanings of what I see through mental adjustments of memories, general notions and my imagination. The unsharp objects acquire form and shape through layers of memory and imagination, almost in the same way we recreate our own memories, layer after layer until the object or memory has taken a new but still familiar form. I have chosen the subject of food because food is something we all can relate to and easily recognize, it has a central place in our lives.
The photos have been shot in my studio in natural light.
about the photographer
Ilva Beretta is a Swedish photographer living in Italy since 1994. She, specializes professionally in food photography and her work, commercial, editorial, and personal fine arts projects, is driven by the storytelling aspect as much as the emotional impact of an image, experimenting with a broad range of subjects, contexts, and themes, although almost always featuring food.back to gallery