honorable mention
Mauro De Bettio italyPhoto © Mauro De Bettio
title
ARISE
After high school I started to work delivering bread in order to support myself and my brother, and soon after I started engaging myself in different sports. I have 10 national gold medals so far.
I love playing football, swimming, and cycling, but my biggest passion is definitely contemporary dance. I decided not to fall into darkness but rather show the world that I was a strong person. I decided to overcome my disability and turned it into a strength.
I want to be a source of inspiration for people living with disabilities (and not) by showing that anything is possible when you face something with love and passion.
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Even with my new condition after that horrible accident that happened when I was only 4 years old, I wanted to continue to be treated like other children. I decided not to fall into darkness, but rather to show the world that I was a strong person. I decided
In my life I had the chance to visit wonderful places and especially to meet great people.
My purpose is, and has always been, capture the feeling of what I "touch", not just the appearance of it.
Capture the essence and express the nuances of a person in just one frame showing those subtleties
that can be hard to describe in words.
Reproducing every emotion, from happiness to sadness, from fear to excitement.
Through simply showing an images, evoke an emotion in someone else, make people stop and think.
Stop them in their tracks just with a glance at an image.
Photography is a fantastic story-telling medium.
Just ask yourself what story you want to tell, and photography can get you there.
Mauro De Bettio (born March 4, 1975) lives now in Barcelona, Spain.
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entry description
I was involved in a car accident when I was only 4 years old. My left leg was injured so badly that the doctors decided to amputate it. Because of my “new” conditions, my parents decided to take me to a special primary school for people with physical disabilities. I personally felt I was much more able than most of the children around me, so I begged my parents to take me back to a regular school where all my other siblings were going. I never dwelled on my disability and I engaged myself in all the games that other children played. I refused to be seen as an extra when it was time to choose teams for games. I always wanted to be treated as an equal and not be chosen to play with other kids out of sympathy.After high school I started to work delivering bread in order to support myself and my brother, and soon after I started engaging myself in different sports. I have 10 national gold medals so far.
I love playing football, swimming, and cycling, but my biggest passion is definitely contemporary dance. I decided not to fall into darkness but rather show the world that I was a strong person. I decided to overcome my disability and turned it into a strength.
I want to be a source of inspiration for people living with disabilities (and not) by showing that anything is possible when you face something with love and passion.
(600 characters)
Even with my new condition after that horrible accident that happened when I was only 4 years old, I wanted to continue to be treated like other children. I decided not to fall into darkness, but rather to show the world that I was a strong person. I decided
about the photographer
Difficult to express, but I'm quite sure photography is for me my primary way of speaking.In my life I had the chance to visit wonderful places and especially to meet great people.
My purpose is, and has always been, capture the feeling of what I "touch", not just the appearance of it.
Capture the essence and express the nuances of a person in just one frame showing those subtleties
that can be hard to describe in words.
Reproducing every emotion, from happiness to sadness, from fear to excitement.
Through simply showing an images, evoke an emotion in someone else, make people stop and think.
Stop them in their tracks just with a glance at an image.
Photography is a fantastic story-telling medium.
Just ask yourself what story you want to tell, and photography can get you there.
Mauro De Bettio (born March 4, 1975) lives now in Barcelona, Spain.
back to gallery