honorable mention
giuliano ottaviani france
title
Scary Monsters and Superscapes
This small series is composed by a selection of urban clichés I took during my 2016 trips and some famous illustrations extracted from some 19th century art books. Every image was decoloured, cropped, composed and recolored completely on Adobe Photoshop.
At the end of 2013, after four years spent learning photography techniques while working in the e-commerce business he decides to start a freelance career.
He plunges deeply into his great passions, architectural photography and portraiture, inspired by the example of his lifetime masters: Polidori, Avedon, Basilico, Burtynsky, Witkin…
His very first series, La Petite Ceinture, a 2-year photographic research on remains of the first Parisian urban railway, obtains a certain visibility in the French and Italian press. This work pushes Giuliano forward in the visual study of a wide subject: Matter and its relationship with time and environment.
His second series : « Behind The Fence » explores the different states of decay of several 18th century manors in France and Italy and gets exposed in several galleries in Paris.
In 2015 his research oversteps the boundaries of pure photography and he gives life to Urban Hymns, a series of digital collages in which narrow and grey views of the city of Paris get covered by a colourful layer of graffiti and illustrations.
Today Giuliano works as a portraitist and interiors photographer in France : in his free time he continues his photographic quest deep inside the heart of French forests.
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entry description
Monsters, travellers and gods came back from the popular imagery of 19th century to pay a visit in some well-known cities of the contemporary world. Like tourists they carelessly enjoy the urbanscape which is clearly twisted by their supernatural presence.This small series is composed by a selection of urban clichés I took during my 2016 trips and some famous illustrations extracted from some 19th century art books. Every image was decoloured, cropped, composed and recolored completely on Adobe Photoshop.
about the photographer
Giuliano Ottaviani is a Roman born photographer who lives and works in ParisAt the end of 2013, after four years spent learning photography techniques while working in the e-commerce business he decides to start a freelance career.
He plunges deeply into his great passions, architectural photography and portraiture, inspired by the example of his lifetime masters: Polidori, Avedon, Basilico, Burtynsky, Witkin…
His very first series, La Petite Ceinture, a 2-year photographic research on remains of the first Parisian urban railway, obtains a certain visibility in the French and Italian press. This work pushes Giuliano forward in the visual study of a wide subject: Matter and its relationship with time and environment.
His second series : « Behind The Fence » explores the different states of decay of several 18th century manors in France and Italy and gets exposed in several galleries in Paris.
In 2015 his research oversteps the boundaries of pure photography and he gives life to Urban Hymns, a series of digital collages in which narrow and grey views of the city of Paris get covered by a colourful layer of graffiti and illustrations.
Today Giuliano works as a portraitist and interiors photographer in France : in his free time he continues his photographic quest deep inside the heart of French forests.
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