1st place
gold star award
Piotr Trojanowski
italy
title
We are just tourists in this life
The research, initially thought as a long-term project, was halted by the Covid-19 pandemic. At this moment, seeing the Italian cities emptied of citizens and tourism, this pictures seem to belong to a different reality that we hope to find again soon.
Following his education in graphic design and photojournalism he moved to Italy in 2008. In 2009 he started to work in Milan in field of commercial photography and to develop his first personal projects.
In 2011 he won M. H. Kellicut Award, during the international festival of photography in San Francisco, California. Some images from Light Dancer and Metamorphotos series has been chosen by Giorgio Bonomi to be part of his book “Il Corpo Solitario vol. II, Self-portrait in contemporary photography” (2017).
At the beginning of 2018 he started to rethink unfinished photo series and to create new mid and long-term projects.
Piotr’s research range between themes related to the investigation of urban landscape, contemporary myths and formal research based on light and movement. He creates poetic and evocative images marked with an expressive language.
He has participated in several national and international collective exhibitions.
Piotr lives and works as professional photographer in Milan and Padua.
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entry description
The photos of this series were taken between July and September 2019. The project would like to investigate the relationship between masses of tourists and the Italian cities of art in periods of maximum overcrowding. I used the long exposure to show people as ephemeral, transparent presences. And groups that they form as a unique flow in movement. I wanted to give suggestion of the transience of their presence in comparison with the history of the place that surrounds them.The research, initially thought as a long-term project, was halted by the Covid-19 pandemic. At this moment, seeing the Italian cities emptied of citizens and tourism, this pictures seem to belong to a different reality that we hope to find again soon.
about the photographer
Piotr was born in Bytom, Poland, in 1986. He began to photograph when he was 17 years old as autodidact.Following his education in graphic design and photojournalism he moved to Italy in 2008. In 2009 he started to work in Milan in field of commercial photography and to develop his first personal projects.
In 2011 he won M. H. Kellicut Award, during the international festival of photography in San Francisco, California. Some images from Light Dancer and Metamorphotos series has been chosen by Giorgio Bonomi to be part of his book “Il Corpo Solitario vol. II, Self-portrait in contemporary photography” (2017).
At the beginning of 2018 he started to rethink unfinished photo series and to create new mid and long-term projects.
Piotr’s research range between themes related to the investigation of urban landscape, contemporary myths and formal research based on light and movement. He creates poetic and evocative images marked with an expressive language.
He has participated in several national and international collective exhibitions.
Piotr lives and works as professional photographer in Milan and Padua.
back to gallery