honorable mention
maria regina de luca spain
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La romería del Rocio
Maria Regina De Luca, born in Naples on March 31, 1989, is a Neapolitan photographer and artist who lives in Madrid. She graduated in Arts with a background in Historical and Artistic Studies, studied cinematography at the Ecam school in Madrid and photography at the Efti school. Among his teachers there are artists such as Luciano Ferrara, Francesco Zizola, Monika Bulaj, Shoba Battaglia, Javier Vallhonrat, Jose Latova. Maria Regina de Luca exhibited at the Palazzo Caracciolo in Naples the Istanbul staff in 2012 and in 2016 she inaugurated a personal space of art and photography in Madrid, the 2D AMOREDEDIOS4 in the ancient headquarters of the Flamenco Academy Amor de Dios with the personal " Dionysus, the Chiaroscuro ". The same exhibition was exhibited in September 2016 at the Institute for Philosophical Studies in Naples and transposed, thanks to the collaboration of the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, in tactile format to make it accessible to the blind. Maria Regina has participated in numerous photography festivals including Tarazona Foto (Spain) and Corigliano Calabro for Photography (Italy). Creator, director and screenwriter of short films ("Le gocce d'oro" 2010 and "I Will Wait" - 2012), has collaborated with the magazine "The Post Internazionale", collaborates with "Iuppiter News" and with "L'Economista" of Madrid. Regina De Luca works in the field of pictorial experimentation and the search for fiction and the spectacular in everyday reality.
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The Rocio is a small town in the province of Huelva, where a pilgrimage is celebrated every year during Pentecost in honor of Our Lady: the Romeria del Rocio. Less famous than that of Santiago de Compostela, the pilgrimage of the Rocio seems to wake the Aldea (the village) from a spell that seems to suspend it all year round. The words of the Sevillan "Tiempo Detente" explain the meaning of Rocío as a pilgrimage, as a vow of adoration and an act of faith, as a reality in itself made up of dreams, songs, efforts. The time of the Rocio is a suspended time, in which the arena, the sand acts as a carpet to the steps, the song rounds the monumental profile of the Ermita del Rocio and the bank of the Quema river greets the pilgrim with its rushes and the silence of the lagoon surrounding Aldea is broken only by the trills that mark the sevillanas for Virgen. The nights of the journey just light up the Coto de Doñana, completely immersed in darkness. We pray all night dancing to the rhythm of the palmas while during the day we walk behind the "Sin Pecado", that is the cart of the virgin pulled by two oxen, until the arrival in the aldea where the party continues without interruption until the Sunday of Pentecost.about the photographer
BioMaria Regina De Luca, born in Naples on March 31, 1989, is a Neapolitan photographer and artist who lives in Madrid. She graduated in Arts with a background in Historical and Artistic Studies, studied cinematography at the Ecam school in Madrid and photography at the Efti school. Among his teachers there are artists such as Luciano Ferrara, Francesco Zizola, Monika Bulaj, Shoba Battaglia, Javier Vallhonrat, Jose Latova. Maria Regina de Luca exhibited at the Palazzo Caracciolo in Naples the Istanbul staff in 2012 and in 2016 she inaugurated a personal space of art and photography in Madrid, the 2D AMOREDEDIOS4 in the ancient headquarters of the Flamenco Academy Amor de Dios with the personal " Dionysus, the Chiaroscuro ". The same exhibition was exhibited in September 2016 at the Institute for Philosophical Studies in Naples and transposed, thanks to the collaboration of the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, in tactile format to make it accessible to the blind. Maria Regina has participated in numerous photography festivals including Tarazona Foto (Spain) and Corigliano Calabro for Photography (Italy). Creator, director and screenwriter of short films ("Le gocce d'oro" 2010 and "I Will Wait" - 2012), has collaborated with the magazine "The Post Internazionale", collaborates with "Iuppiter News" and with "L'Economista" of Madrid. Regina De Luca works in the field of pictorial experimentation and the search for fiction and the spectacular in everyday reality.
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