honorable mention
Pietro Di Giambattista italy
title
I’VE GOT NO ONE TO HOLD ME
I’VE GOT NO ONE TO HOLD ME is a black and white explorative journey through intellectual disability. A mirror game, in which observation has got the double goal of getting to know the other in front of you and inside you. A “path” to follow, where you need to get lost in order to discover yourself. These mirrors tell us about a world of loneliness, dreamy eyes, silent hard work, tangible absence and sympathetic contemplation… They are peopled by “angels” with big shoes, “enchanting anomalies / of blurred souls”, which are wrinkles, smiles and coughing poles.
Io non ho braccia, che sappiano tenermi stretto, oltre le mie.
Io non ho occhi che per chi mi scruta con sguardo da bambino che sogna
e faccia da uomo che traguarda l’infinito mostro che mi porto dentro…
Io non ho nessuno, in questa caccia,
oltre una scatola nera sfumata, tra la terra e il cielo,
che ora mi abbraccia.
Written by the poet Davide Toffoli
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entry description
I’VE GOT NO ONE TO HOLD MEI’VE GOT NO ONE TO HOLD ME is a black and white explorative journey through intellectual disability. A mirror game, in which observation has got the double goal of getting to know the other in front of you and inside you. A “path” to follow, where you need to get lost in order to discover yourself. These mirrors tell us about a world of loneliness, dreamy eyes, silent hard work, tangible absence and sympathetic contemplation… They are peopled by “angels” with big shoes, “enchanting anomalies / of blurred souls”, which are wrinkles, smiles and coughing poles.
Io non ho braccia, che sappiano tenermi stretto, oltre le mie.
Io non ho occhi che per chi mi scruta con sguardo da bambino che sogna
e faccia da uomo che traguarda l’infinito mostro che mi porto dentro…
Io non ho nessuno, in questa caccia,
oltre una scatola nera sfumata, tra la terra e il cielo,
che ora mi abbraccia.
Written by the poet Davide Toffoli
about the photographer
Pietro Di Giambattista was born in Pannarano (BN) in 1956, began to devote himself to photography only late in life and does not follow any regular course. For some time he devoted himself to the genre of landscape and only in 1996 attending a workshop on landscape with Eddie Ephraums to TPW, has the opportunity to visit the exhibition of the famous photojournalist Antonin kratocvil that turns him into a new passion: the photojournalism . Since then abandons the status of self-taught and began attending various workshops with Antonin Kratochvil, Paolo Pellegrin, Francesco Zizola, Maurizio Galimberti for Polaroid materials, Michael Ackerman, Yuri Kozyrev, the starter course to the profession with Rolando Fava at the Permanent School of Photography Graffiti directed by Gianni pinnizzotto. In 2002 he ranked third in the Portraits section at World Press Photo with a portrait as part of his project "Nomadi". That same year he won first place at the international competition Solighetto. This result gives him the ability to publish the book "Nomads". Pietro Di Giambattista has been exhibited in Rome, Naples, Milan, Barcelona, Solighetto, Bari etc.back to gallery
