honorable mention
Salvatore Montemagno italy
title
The prisoner
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entry description
The prisoner is the protagonist of a novel ...... a great novel ...... one of those wonderful, very long novels ..... full of words, feelings, history, in 3 .... .4 .... 5 volumes ....... which, however, has not yet been written !!!!!! ...................... ...... And she is there .... ready .... waiting to be able to go out ...... to finally exist ............ tired of living alone in the my head.about the photographer
I was born in Gela in Sicily, 01.04.1962. From 1984 I live in Montichiari (BS). I have been taking photographs for over 30 years. I still remember when I took my first photo with a reflex, a Cosina CT1, loaned to me by a work colleague, in Rome, from the window of our office. A very trivial photo ... but very important to me…. The zero point of a great passion that has never abandoned me since. I still have that photo. But ... it was only a few years since I started studying and developing "my photos, the encounter with digital photography was for me the year zero. Being able to have total control over my shots in post production has opened the door to a new and wonderful world ... .. It was what I was waiting for. For me photography is an exteriorization of inner images. I do not have the pretension, nor the intention, nor the desire to document reality. Reality love to interpret it ... or better ... I like to give "my version of events" ... trying to express it artistically ... and hoping to succeedback to gallery