2nd place
silver star award
Pietro Di Giambattista
italy
title
Els Enfarinatas
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entry description
Each 28th December in Ibi, in the province of Alicante (Spain), the so-called “Floured’s war” takes place. It is an event in which the inhabitants dressed in military clothes are divided into two groups: one group, the "Enfarinatas" simulates a coup d’etat, while the other a sort of police force called "La Oposicio" tries to restore order . These two groups challenge each other with blows of flour, eggs, water, firecrackers and coloured smoke bombs. The festival has existed for 200 years (the festival was revived in 1981 after long lying dormant) and is part of the celebrations linked to the day of the massacre of innocents, when Herod, King of Judea, ordered to kill each baby in order to find Jesus. It starts at 8 in the morning when the Enfarinatas invade the city, conquer it and elect a Mayor who sets new (ridiculous) laws to be respected all day. The Enfarinatas also collect fines from those who break the new "laws", but then donate the money to charity when the event is over.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