honorable mention
Marcello Niccodemi italy
Photo © Marcello Niccodemi
title
The gardens of phoenix
My artistic research takes shape in the Apuan Alps, where I learned to observe nature as a space of energy, stillness, and truth.
I'm often inspired by a phrase that sums up the meaning of my work: “Sometimes someone notices what's happening around us and points it out to the person next to us; thus arises the awareness of the beauty that surrounds us, of its fragility and majesty, and of how ephemeral our existence is, increasingly distant and alienated from the places to which our soul belongs.”
Through my images, I seek precisely this: to spread awareness, recounting the strength and fragility of nature through a language that unites the vastness of landscapes and the intimacy of the abstract forms linked to them.
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entry description
One of the most unique aspects of Iceland is certainly the particular presence of volcanoes that with their destructive activity shape the landscape leading to the birth of lush vegetation composed mainly by the centenary mosses of Icelandic. Mosses that are as durable as fragile, to the point that stepping on one would destroy it, for this reason the Icelandic government has created special paths to allow everyone to admire them.about the photographer
I am an Italian photographer born in 1996. My photography was born between the cliffs of the Tuscan coast and the great cities of Europe. Over time, however, the need to move away from the frenetic pace and crowding that characterize our present has pushed me towards wild and isolated places, where nature still retains its original silence.My artistic research takes shape in the Apuan Alps, where I learned to observe nature as a space of energy, stillness, and truth.
I'm often inspired by a phrase that sums up the meaning of my work: “Sometimes someone notices what's happening around us and points it out to the person next to us; thus arises the awareness of the beauty that surrounds us, of its fragility and majesty, and of how ephemeral our existence is, increasingly distant and alienated from the places to which our soul belongs.”
Through my images, I seek precisely this: to spread awareness, recounting the strength and fragility of nature through a language that unites the vastness of landscapes and the intimacy of the abstract forms linked to them.
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