honorable mention
Pietro Di Giambattista italy
title
Nomadi
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entry description
This series on the Gypsies, very raw, tells of life in the old unauthorized camps of Rome where people lived as the Italians lived more than 60 years ago: no water, no electricity, no sewers. An archaic world with its rules and its characters, always hated and oppressed. Places often similar to concentration camps (we must not forget that between 1939 and 1945 over 500,000 gypsies, victims of National Socialism were killed) where everything was possible : from the innocent games of children, to the overwhelming of the strongest on the weakest to intolerances between different ethnic groups that sometimes also resulted in homicide. A world that, however, despite all the poetry of the gypsies and in the eyes of children as well as a veiled sadness there is pride, innocence and a humanity that goes beyond ethnic differences. A hope for these communities hated and hardly tolerated.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