honorable mention
Karmilla Shelly Francesco Pandolfi italy
title
"Alice, Life is what you decide"
The project freely reinterprets Lewis Carroll's masterpiece "Alice in Wonderland" by dwelling and analyzing through Alice's image the various life teachings that can be drawn from the tale of Carroll.
The title combines all the images represented in the series; the character of Alice has become an android, tied with wires and imprisoned in a room but with a look full of courtesy and desire to dream.
In the images shown here, the threads are soft, they no longer hold the girl, the growth is happening not only on the physical level, because she is big compared to the room but the moment here represented is that of the reflexion of how it is growing, looking the direction that is going to decide.
The growth occurred at the moment when Alice finds herself in the vortex of cards, fate envelops her, the various seeds represent the phases of love (hearts), pain (spades), fortune (flowers), wisdom ( paintings).
At the end she finds herself with a green potion in her hand and a key with the shape of heart on the other side hand. Life, luck and love balance of life without prejudice and without vices.
The series of images taken in the studio is edited through digital and composite manipulation with 3D elements.
She studied set design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and subsequently completed his studies obtaining a degree in Contemporary Art.
Karmilla has been using photography and video as a creative media since she was a student attracted to the cinema and video world.
Soon she seeks her personal style, tirelessly devoting herself to a deep search of the physical and mental places of human existence, the impulses of the soul attract it as well as psychology, fundamental themes on which her compositions are concentrated with dreamlike and surreal references, a 'investigation aimed at exploring the diverse and parallel world of relationships, emotions and sometimes grotesque human world.
For her works, in addition to pure photography, she uses graphic manipulation, sometimes combined with stage elements in 3D to create or reinvent fantasy stories or nocturnal images with waterproof portraits of sensuality and mystery, sometimes drawing inspiration from classic fables, Greek classics and romantic literature or to the masters of the Renaissance.
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entry description
This work is part of a series called "Alice, Life is what you decide".The project freely reinterprets Lewis Carroll's masterpiece "Alice in Wonderland" by dwelling and analyzing through Alice's image the various life teachings that can be drawn from the tale of Carroll.
The title combines all the images represented in the series; the character of Alice has become an android, tied with wires and imprisoned in a room but with a look full of courtesy and desire to dream.
In the images shown here, the threads are soft, they no longer hold the girl, the growth is happening not only on the physical level, because she is big compared to the room but the moment here represented is that of the reflexion of how it is growing, looking the direction that is going to decide.
The growth occurred at the moment when Alice finds herself in the vortex of cards, fate envelops her, the various seeds represent the phases of love (hearts), pain (spades), fortune (flowers), wisdom ( paintings).
At the end she finds herself with a green potion in her hand and a key with the shape of heart on the other side hand. Life, luck and love balance of life without prejudice and without vices.
The series of images taken in the studio is edited through digital and composite manipulation with 3D elements.
about the photographer
Karmilla Shelly is an artist and fine art photographer born in Italy.She studied set design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and subsequently completed his studies obtaining a degree in Contemporary Art.
Karmilla has been using photography and video as a creative media since she was a student attracted to the cinema and video world.
Soon she seeks her personal style, tirelessly devoting herself to a deep search of the physical and mental places of human existence, the impulses of the soul attract it as well as psychology, fundamental themes on which her compositions are concentrated with dreamlike and surreal references, a 'investigation aimed at exploring the diverse and parallel world of relationships, emotions and sometimes grotesque human world.
For her works, in addition to pure photography, she uses graphic manipulation, sometimes combined with stage elements in 3D to create or reinvent fantasy stories or nocturnal images with waterproof portraits of sensuality and mystery, sometimes drawing inspiration from classic fables, Greek classics and romantic literature or to the masters of the Renaissance.
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