honorable mention
Catia Mencacci italy
title
The violets will bloom again
The project wants to be surreal but, after all, it is perhaps not equally unlikely that, on a daily basis, we are able to interact with our computer and almost make it talk, in order to reach our personal gains, while we are unable to agree with other human beings, in a dialogue that is aimed at satisfying the interests of the whole community?
Too many wars have been going on for many years now and show no sign of ending and, indeed, new ones have begun.
Human nature leads us to repeat the same mistakes we made previously, with disastrous consequences for all peoples; at the same time it pushes us to look to tomorrow as a better day, in which happiness is the right and deserved destination of the journey undertaken by each of us: here we are therefore faced with a further, enormous, paradox.
Hope and trust are the springs that make us go forward on the path of our life: and this is why, after all and despite everything, we will always feel authorized to believe that “ The violets will bloom again”.
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entry description
The contrasts between the war and post-war scenarios created with artificial intelligence software and the glad expressions of the subjects portrayed in photos taken in the years following World War II are the theme of these images.The project wants to be surreal but, after all, it is perhaps not equally unlikely that, on a daily basis, we are able to interact with our computer and almost make it talk, in order to reach our personal gains, while we are unable to agree with other human beings, in a dialogue that is aimed at satisfying the interests of the whole community?
Too many wars have been going on for many years now and show no sign of ending and, indeed, new ones have begun.
Human nature leads us to repeat the same mistakes we made previously, with disastrous consequences for all peoples; at the same time it pushes us to look to tomorrow as a better day, in which happiness is the right and deserved destination of the journey undertaken by each of us: here we are therefore faced with a further, enormous, paradox.
Hope and trust are the springs that make us go forward on the path of our life: and this is why, after all and despite everything, we will always feel authorized to believe that “ The violets will bloom again”.
about the photographer
Catia Mencacci approached to the photography world in 2012, as an adult. The inscription on her first photo course is a joke. Without any knowledge in photographic material and having never felt the need to take pictures before then, partecipates in early teachings without having a camera. Her interest became a real passion very early. She was mostly intersted to an impressionistic, oniric world in which the image brings the soul of the observer in a magical world: a world made of emotions and feelings such a solitude, concern and melancholy. She exposed in personal and collective exhibitionsback to gallery