honorable mention
MARIA CHIARA MAFFI CHIARA GIANCAMILLI italy
Photo © MC DUEPUNTOOTTO
title
OPERA NOSTRA
To change something, just "do" something. Anyone can contribute to a change, with their own means. We have realized a photographic project.
The whole world throws its nets, receiving plastic in exchange. The same net gives life to a small red fish, called to represent the entire marine community, in which plastic fragments are recognizable. In Asia, Africa, America and Europe the rivers that pour most pollution into the sea are: The "Yangtze" in China that transports up to 1.5 million tons of plastic into the sea every year, the "Nile" that flows into the Mediterranean Sea , the "Amazon River" in Brazil and the "Danube" in Romania that carries from 530 to 1500 tons. Localized through the Google Earth server, we have imprinted the course of these rivers in photographs that have been inkjet printed on transparent plastic sheets. Photographed on a white wall that, with its texture, brings us back to the stalemate of pollution on the sea. A subject that finds itself executioner and victim of its own household waste (suffice it to say that through food and water, humans introduce 50 thousand plastic particles into the body) flanked by one of the industrial realities, that deals with the recycling of plastic materials in the Italian territory: Italrec srl.
Here, large HD polyethylene walls, industrial material and polypropylene have new life with recycling.
They won a scholarship at the Raffles Fashion and Design Institute of Milan and they attended a Master in photography directed by Denis Curti. They designed the photographic project "Genera-azioni" about the city of Milan. Then, they took part in a workshop of several months with Giovanni Gastel, Ferdinando Scianna, Matthias Harder, Margaret Courtney-Clarke and Aida Muluneh.
After the workshop with Erik Kessels, they exhibited in a collective "THE EMBARRASSMENT SHOW" - O ’gallery (Milan), curated by the same.
2019 MC2.8 solo exhibition “LA TRASPARENZA DELL’IMMAGINE" at SPECCHIO41 (Brescia), curated by Pietro Bazzoli.
2018 Presents "Sono alla fine", Rab (MI)
2018 Collective exhibition "Esercizi di Stile", Spazio Lambrate (MI)
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entry description
“Ho visitato tantissimi luoghi per fare campionamenti insieme a scienziati e ricercatori, e abbiamo trovato sacchetti ovunque: nei ghiacci polari e nel mare Artico, nel fiume Po e nel Mediterraneo. Ne abbiamo visti perfino sulle vette delle montagne.” (Franco Borgogno - autore de “Un Mare di plastica”)To change something, just "do" something. Anyone can contribute to a change, with their own means. We have realized a photographic project.
The whole world throws its nets, receiving plastic in exchange. The same net gives life to a small red fish, called to represent the entire marine community, in which plastic fragments are recognizable. In Asia, Africa, America and Europe the rivers that pour most pollution into the sea are: The "Yangtze" in China that transports up to 1.5 million tons of plastic into the sea every year, the "Nile" that flows into the Mediterranean Sea , the "Amazon River" in Brazil and the "Danube" in Romania that carries from 530 to 1500 tons. Localized through the Google Earth server, we have imprinted the course of these rivers in photographs that have been inkjet printed on transparent plastic sheets. Photographed on a white wall that, with its texture, brings us back to the stalemate of pollution on the sea. A subject that finds itself executioner and victim of its own household waste (suffice it to say that through food and water, humans introduce 50 thousand plastic particles into the body) flanked by one of the industrial realities, that deals with the recycling of plastic materials in the Italian territory: Italrec srl.
Here, large HD polyethylene walls, industrial material and polypropylene have new life with recycling.
about the photographer
MC2.8: Maria Chiara Maffi and Chiara Giancamilli are a female duo of fine art photographers. United by passion for art and photography that they have decided to collaborate at the realization of photo-artistic projects.They won a scholarship at the Raffles Fashion and Design Institute of Milan and they attended a Master in photography directed by Denis Curti. They designed the photographic project "Genera-azioni" about the city of Milan. Then, they took part in a workshop of several months with Giovanni Gastel, Ferdinando Scianna, Matthias Harder, Margaret Courtney-Clarke and Aida Muluneh.
After the workshop with Erik Kessels, they exhibited in a collective "THE EMBARRASSMENT SHOW" - O ’gallery (Milan), curated by the same.
2019 MC2.8 solo exhibition “LA TRASPARENZA DELL’IMMAGINE" at SPECCHIO41 (Brescia), curated by Pietro Bazzoli.
2018 Presents "Sono alla fine", Rab (MI)
2018 Collective exhibition "Esercizi di Stile", Spazio Lambrate (MI)
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