honorable mention
Luisa Montagna italy
Photo © Luisa Montagna
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Pitbulls also eat eggs
During the long lockdowns, not being able to move from home, I portrayed moments of my friend Paola's daily life.
The marriage and the desire to go to live in the countryside led her, years ago, to move from Liguria, the seaside place where she was born, to a region where the winter fog is a constant.
Paola is suffering from an immunosuppressive disease, so since the beginning of the pandemic the fear of contagion materialized for her. Her illness forces her to reduce contact with other people as much as possible, so much so that her family members also represent a potential danger for her. However, thanks to her choice of life, today she lives "protected" in a sort of oasis of isolation represented by the fence of her house, raising poultry and cultivating products of the earth.
For several decades, she is working in the field of Visual Communication.
A lifelong lover of painting and the visual arts, he began taking photographs at an advanced age after receiving his first camera as a gift.
From that moment on, a path of growth began, bringing her closer to photography as self-expression rather than as a representation of reality.
She began by devoting herself to the genre of documentary reportage, and has lately moved closer to a more evocative and dreamlike style, where images overlap and merge to create new worlds that satisfy her feeling as a dreamer.
Always in search of her own identity as a photographer, she has some documentary reportage projects to her credit, two of which have obtained Honorable Mentions in International Competitions (Monochrome Photography Awards, ND Awards, Monovisions Photography Awards, Chromatic Awards, Tokyo International Foto Awards, IPA Int'l Photography Awards, BIFA, Trieste Photo Days) and publications in online magazines and books.
You have recently exhibited in group exhibitions with Kromart Gallery in Rome, PH21 Gallery in Budapest, Finale Ligure Castle (Italy), the last one with PhotoMilano 2.0 in Milan.
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entry description
In 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic began to spread to Europe from Lombardy, in northern Italy. Soon after, Emilia Romagna, the region where I live, was also hit hard due to its high population density and industrial settlements.During the long lockdowns, not being able to move from home, I portrayed moments of my friend Paola's daily life.
The marriage and the desire to go to live in the countryside led her, years ago, to move from Liguria, the seaside place where she was born, to a region where the winter fog is a constant.
Paola is suffering from an immunosuppressive disease, so since the beginning of the pandemic the fear of contagion materialized for her. Her illness forces her to reduce contact with other people as much as possible, so much so that her family members also represent a potential danger for her. However, thanks to her choice of life, today she lives "protected" in a sort of oasis of isolation represented by the fence of her house, raising poultry and cultivating products of the earth.
about the photographer
She comes from an artistic background, having obtained a Level II Academic Diploma in Cello. For about ten years, she worked for musical institutions as a professor of orchestra and in chamber music ensembles.For several decades, she is working in the field of Visual Communication.
A lifelong lover of painting and the visual arts, he began taking photographs at an advanced age after receiving his first camera as a gift.
From that moment on, a path of growth began, bringing her closer to photography as self-expression rather than as a representation of reality.
She began by devoting herself to the genre of documentary reportage, and has lately moved closer to a more evocative and dreamlike style, where images overlap and merge to create new worlds that satisfy her feeling as a dreamer.
Always in search of her own identity as a photographer, she has some documentary reportage projects to her credit, two of which have obtained Honorable Mentions in International Competitions (Monochrome Photography Awards, ND Awards, Monovisions Photography Awards, Chromatic Awards, Tokyo International Foto Awards, IPA Int'l Photography Awards, BIFA, Trieste Photo Days) and publications in online magazines and books.
You have recently exhibited in group exhibitions with Kromart Gallery in Rome, PH21 Gallery in Budapest, Finale Ligure Castle (Italy), the last one with PhotoMilano 2.0 in Milan.
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