honorable mention
Attilio Ruffo united states
Photo © Attilio Ruffo
title
Spotlight.
I used a 50mm and 10 stops ND filter to keep my shutter open for 179 seconds at f/8.0.
I wanted to create a contrast between the simplicity of this representation of downtown Manhattan with its conventional image.
I was born in Italy in 1968, where I lived for the first 38 years of my life, and yes, I am another one of those that got his first camera from his grandfather as a kid.
I didn't connect with photography right away. Passion developed a little later, when I started to travel.
My curiosity to explore the world found in my camera, and in my Velvia 50 slides, an ideal place to be captured and saved.
At that time though, I did not have any interest in sharing my images.
Photography was for me, for me only.
I took a different path that led me to the corporate world, where I spent 15 years working in Marketing and Communications.
My last corporate appointment as VP Marketing & Communications of Ferrari North America, brought me to the States and more precisely to New York City...where every dream can come true...
I have always known that I was not a corporate guy, but for a long time I thought that if I was going to let my passion for photography become my profession,
I was going to lose passion for it. I was wrong!
Photography is my escape.
I express my creativity through an obsessed research for simplicity.
The use of very long exposures helps me to create minimalistic compositions and to represent my vision and interpretation of a place.
I aim to shoot images that can transfer a peaceful and serene state of mind.
I pursue natural beauty trying to capture clean, unique and timeless images.
Photography keeps me searching!
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entry description
A minimalistic black and white view of downtown Manhattan at the very end of the day, taken from Hoboken.I used a 50mm and 10 stops ND filter to keep my shutter open for 179 seconds at f/8.0.
I wanted to create a contrast between the simplicity of this representation of downtown Manhattan with its conventional image.
about the photographer
I am a Fine Art Photographer based in the East Bay of San Francisco.I was born in Italy in 1968, where I lived for the first 38 years of my life, and yes, I am another one of those that got his first camera from his grandfather as a kid.
I didn't connect with photography right away. Passion developed a little later, when I started to travel.
My curiosity to explore the world found in my camera, and in my Velvia 50 slides, an ideal place to be captured and saved.
At that time though, I did not have any interest in sharing my images.
Photography was for me, for me only.
I took a different path that led me to the corporate world, where I spent 15 years working in Marketing and Communications.
My last corporate appointment as VP Marketing & Communications of Ferrari North America, brought me to the States and more precisely to New York City...where every dream can come true...
I have always known that I was not a corporate guy, but for a long time I thought that if I was going to let my passion for photography become my profession,
I was going to lose passion for it. I was wrong!
Photography is my escape.
I express my creativity through an obsessed research for simplicity.
The use of very long exposures helps me to create minimalistic compositions and to represent my vision and interpretation of a place.
I aim to shoot images that can transfer a peaceful and serene state of mind.
I pursue natural beauty trying to capture clean, unique and timeless images.
Photography keeps me searching!
back to gallery
