honorable mention
Karmilla Shelly italy
title
"Quarantine Diary"
A box that contains the individual, isolated but inexorably linked to others, symbolically represented by a red ribbon to remember blood, life in cohesion with others. The message is that the individual is not dissolved, he is not a monad, but is part of a cycle linked to his fellow men and mother earth, suspended between heaven and earth, between spirit and matter.
The hope of still looking out and feeling better will never die.
Year: 2020
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
The series was conceived during the quarantine period where I imagined that the interior would become the exterior trying to exorcise the loneliness and melancholy of life that passes differently from the normal course. Individuals can no longer touch each other and they are afraid to cross those limits that have been decided to save lives.A box that contains the individual, isolated but inexorably linked to others, symbolically represented by a red ribbon to remember blood, life in cohesion with others. The message is that the individual is not dissolved, he is not a monad, but is part of a cycle linked to his fellow men and mother earth, suspended between heaven and earth, between spirit and matter.
The hope of still looking out and feeling better will never die.
Year: 2020
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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