honorable mention
Andrea de Franciscis italy
title
When the Peacock Dance
His reportages have been published on the main national and international media outlets, such as TIME, National Geographic, Al Jazeera, GEO, El Paìs, TRT World, Altreconomia, La Repubblica, Narratively, TPI, SAGA Magazine, Il Reportage, among others. His personal research has brought him to expand the means and mediums with which he expresses his vision, through a more personal and introspective approach.
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entry description
The West has nurtured a stereotyped image of India: an exotic land of holy men, elephants and spirituality. “When the peacock dance” puts together images taken all over the subcontinent, trying to portray its frenzied madness and harmony. India is a booming country of 1.38 billion people: a fast-growing economy that over the past decades has brought millions of people out of poverty but has not overcome its contradictions. An antique agrarian society suddenly turned into a corporate-friendly country where civil and minorities’ rights as well as environmental issues are often trampled upon. Rural and urban India, two worlds whose boundaries are increasing blurred, merging into a new, modern reality. A place where concrete, bamboo and plastic rule yet where things get fixed rather than replaced; where nature is being destroyed in the name of development and tube lights bright up the darkness of the night. A surreal, loud and hallucinated dance of humanity throbbing with life.about the photographer
Andrea de Franciscis is a photographer who has been working between India, Europe and South America for the past 10 years. After graduating in medicine, he decided to follow his passion by attending workshop and courses with great masters of contemporary photography, such as Stanley Greene, Francesco Zizzola, Munem Wasif, Pieter ten Hoppen and Ernesto Bazan, with whom he has won a scholarship. In 2012 he started to work as a freelance photojournalist, winning (or being shortlisted) for different awards, such as Premio Marco pesaresi, klphotoawards 2020, Visura 2017, Sony Awards 2015, Colga Tblisi 2015, Leica 2014, Portfolio Italia 2013. In 2020 he co-founded the association “The Docks” to promote contemporary photography.His reportages have been published on the main national and international media outlets, such as TIME, National Geographic, Al Jazeera, GEO, El Paìs, TRT World, Altreconomia, La Repubblica, Narratively, TPI, SAGA Magazine, Il Reportage, among others. His personal research has brought him to expand the means and mediums with which he expresses his vision, through a more personal and introspective approach.
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