honorable mention
Giuseppe Di Giulio italy
title
NY - A trip on the subway
The subway is the symbol of this choral uninterrupted movement of New Yorkers. They use it as if it were a means of personal transport, using the travel time for reading, sleeping, playing, working ...
This underground space, made up of stations, tunnels and trains, it becomes an additional room for the homes of New Yorkers.
It's a "room" neglected and decaying, which coexist in new metal trains and old neon sign mounted on steel girders repainted the worst of men, or modern colorful plastic seats and floors worn by ceramic tiles.
Yet, the New Yorkers, they use these sites excavated under the dizzying skyscrapers and busy intersections as familiar places. They are at ease on the benches, do not count the stops: do not travel, live.
The photos speak of this underground "room" and its inhabitants.
All photos were taken in June 2, 2011 during a single subway trip from 59st to 34st.
He studied and worked as an engineer in Rome from 1996 to 2018, dealing with roads, bridges and galleries in Italy. Since 2019 he lives and works in Turin.
He started taking pictures in 2001 during university to create a magazine for a student association.
His first camera was an analogue Nikon F80, borrowed from his uncle, by which he learned photographic technique from self-taught. After graduation, with an analogue Nikon F75 he made his first personal works and got passionate about black and white photography.
In 2009 he held his first show in a club in Rome and the photo "the caress of the wind" was selected among the finalist works of the Metro Photo Challenge Italy.
He keeps on taking pictures focusing his study on the realization of black and white projects, with an approach based on abstraction and evocation that leads images away from the real world, in the space of thoughts, emotions and memories.
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entry description
Manhattan is the heart of the Big Apple, the city where, at any time, somewhere there is always someone doing something, but above all there is always someone traveling to go somewhere.The subway is the symbol of this choral uninterrupted movement of New Yorkers. They use it as if it were a means of personal transport, using the travel time for reading, sleeping, playing, working ...
This underground space, made up of stations, tunnels and trains, it becomes an additional room for the homes of New Yorkers.
It's a "room" neglected and decaying, which coexist in new metal trains and old neon sign mounted on steel girders repainted the worst of men, or modern colorful plastic seats and floors worn by ceramic tiles.
Yet, the New Yorkers, they use these sites excavated under the dizzying skyscrapers and busy intersections as familiar places. They are at ease on the benches, do not count the stops: do not travel, live.
The photos speak of this underground "room" and its inhabitants.
All photos were taken in June 2, 2011 during a single subway trip from 59st to 34st.
about the photographer
Giuseppe Di Giulio (Taranto - Italy, 1977) lived until he was 18 years old in Lucania (Basilicata) in a small village near Matera.He studied and worked as an engineer in Rome from 1996 to 2018, dealing with roads, bridges and galleries in Italy. Since 2019 he lives and works in Turin.
He started taking pictures in 2001 during university to create a magazine for a student association.
His first camera was an analogue Nikon F80, borrowed from his uncle, by which he learned photographic technique from self-taught. After graduation, with an analogue Nikon F75 he made his first personal works and got passionate about black and white photography.
In 2009 he held his first show in a club in Rome and the photo "the caress of the wind" was selected among the finalist works of the Metro Photo Challenge Italy.
He keeps on taking pictures focusing his study on the realization of black and white projects, with an approach based on abstraction and evocation that leads images away from the real world, in the space of thoughts, emotions and memories.
back to gallery