honorable mention
Giuliano Ottaviani france
title
Eggs, Flour and Perspective
It is the first B/W series I’ve done since 2009 and it is maybe my most personal and instinctual work.I always wanted to try a series about the simplicity and elegance hidden in the shape of egg pasta. The making of egg pasta is a family tradition that I have learned thanks my mother’s harsh teachings. So everything in this series has been moulded by my hands and then shot, one photo per day.
I’m a photographer who normally works with colour, and I often do it on an intellectual level. So, as I wanted to really nourish the instinctual side of this work, I chose to remove the colours from the equation. That choice left me with my love of pasta making and my inner compulsion to explore the spatial potential and the texture of every single object I put my hands on.
Pasta is here deprived of its primary function and rethought as a toy produced to create visual entertainment and stimulation for the imagination. Some photos are more evocative, others more abstract. It is important to understand that I’ve placed no hidden message in this series, just my inner personality.
Lastly, I hope that the viewer will enjoy these images in the same way I enjoyed the process of making them.
At the end of 2013, after four years spent learning photography techniques while working in the e-commerce business he decides to start a freelance career.
He plunges deeply into his great passions, architectural photography and portraiture, inspired by the example of his lifetime masters: Polidori, Avedon, Basilico, Burtynsky, Witkin…
His very first series, La Petite Ceinture, a 2-year photographic research on remains of the first Parisian urban railway, obtains a certain visibility in the French and Italian press. This work pushes Giuliano forward in the visual study of a wide subject: Matter and its relationship with time and environment.
His second series : « Behind The Fence » explores the different states of decay of several 18th century manors in France and Italy and gets exposed in several galleries in Paris.
In 2015 his research oversteps the boundaries of pure photography and he gives life to Urban Hymns, a series of digital collages in which narrow and grey views of the city of Paris get covered by a colourful layer of graffiti and illustrations.
Today Giuliano works as a portraitist and interiors photographer in France : in his free time he continues his photographic quest deep inside the heart of French forests.
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entry description
This series has been produced during French Coronavirus Lockdown.It is the first B/W series I’ve done since 2009 and it is maybe my most personal and instinctual work.I always wanted to try a series about the simplicity and elegance hidden in the shape of egg pasta. The making of egg pasta is a family tradition that I have learned thanks my mother’s harsh teachings. So everything in this series has been moulded by my hands and then shot, one photo per day.
I’m a photographer who normally works with colour, and I often do it on an intellectual level. So, as I wanted to really nourish the instinctual side of this work, I chose to remove the colours from the equation. That choice left me with my love of pasta making and my inner compulsion to explore the spatial potential and the texture of every single object I put my hands on.
Pasta is here deprived of its primary function and rethought as a toy produced to create visual entertainment and stimulation for the imagination. Some photos are more evocative, others more abstract. It is important to understand that I’ve placed no hidden message in this series, just my inner personality.
Lastly, I hope that the viewer will enjoy these images in the same way I enjoyed the process of making them.
about the photographer
Giuliano Ottaviani is a Roman born photographer who lives and works in ParisAt the end of 2013, after four years spent learning photography techniques while working in the e-commerce business he decides to start a freelance career.
He plunges deeply into his great passions, architectural photography and portraiture, inspired by the example of his lifetime masters: Polidori, Avedon, Basilico, Burtynsky, Witkin…
His very first series, La Petite Ceinture, a 2-year photographic research on remains of the first Parisian urban railway, obtains a certain visibility in the French and Italian press. This work pushes Giuliano forward in the visual study of a wide subject: Matter and its relationship with time and environment.
His second series : « Behind The Fence » explores the different states of decay of several 18th century manors in France and Italy and gets exposed in several galleries in Paris.
In 2015 his research oversteps the boundaries of pure photography and he gives life to Urban Hymns, a series of digital collages in which narrow and grey views of the city of Paris get covered by a colourful layer of graffiti and illustrations.
Today Giuliano works as a portraitist and interiors photographer in France : in his free time he continues his photographic quest deep inside the heart of French forests.
back to gallery