honorable mention
Gabriele Gentile italy
title
De-sidera - The great abandoned beauty
I have been hunting for these places since five years,traveling all around Italy looking for this beauty,to be able to eternalize it with my photographs.Many difficulties between asphalt,mud and dust,but when you are inside every efforts disappears:it's just you and her,the great abandoned beauty.
After a course of studies in the classical and humanistic field, he approaches photography sensing its first potential: fix a moment, stop time. In this way he began to shoot photos digitally in 2016, preferring shots that exclude people and faces, leaving space mostly to architecture, to the geometry of lines and color, to the space – especially the urban one - meant as negative, ranging from exploring the architecture and interiors of the past to capturing the most futuristic modern buildings.
From the past to the future, to understand and witness the present.
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entry description
There are some places where time seems to have stopped,and in those places the power of photography to stop time becomes magic.Those places are ancient villas and castles,sumptuous theaters,disquieting asylums and giants of industrial archeology,all united by being abandoned and keeping their charm.I have been hunting for these places since five years,traveling all around Italy looking for this beauty,to be able to eternalize it with my photographs.Many difficulties between asphalt,mud and dust,but when you are inside every efforts disappears:it's just you and her,the great abandoned beauty.
about the photographer
Gabriele Gentile was born in Parma in 1986 and his artistic pseudonym -Vetroviola- reflects the primary features of his photography: an essential photograph, so transparent as to become fragile, with hints of warmth and hints of coldness that can be found together only in the purple colour.After a course of studies in the classical and humanistic field, he approaches photography sensing its first potential: fix a moment, stop time. In this way he began to shoot photos digitally in 2016, preferring shots that exclude people and faces, leaving space mostly to architecture, to the geometry of lines and color, to the space – especially the urban one - meant as negative, ranging from exploring the architecture and interiors of the past to capturing the most futuristic modern buildings.
From the past to the future, to understand and witness the present.
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