honorable mention
Giorgia Valli italy
title
AVES MEI
After a period spent in the midst of thousands of sounds, my wish was to photograph silence. Wandering, I reached the Bronx Zoo, free to move about and photograph for hours. I noticed a sense of freedom which made me feel serene, in a dimension suspended between earth and the heavens. My only connection to reality was through sounds, simple, primitive. Not unlike the cries with which people and birds make their way into the world, with nothing more than simple syllables, such as “da-da” or “ma-ma.” Shot after shot, the singsong of baby talk reached my ears. Whether in suffering or liberty, the mysterious song of birds leaves an indelible trace, which, like cages set into a wall, will eternally preserve the lives and voices of those who inhabited them.
Each photograph was taken in a section of the Bronx Zoo in NYC called ‘The World of Birds’. Every photo represent a bird’s cage. The idea was then to associate these cages to the different places I used to live around the world.The titles of the photograph were created by extrapolating the vowels of the address of each home where I have lived, from birth to the present; these vowels represent that which has remained of each house, as if they were memories. All these places have been to me sometimes like nests and sometimes like cages.
Later in 2013 she moved for a while to New York City, where she attended several courses at the ICP and worked for a magazine, photographing the various and numerous activities of the City.
She leaves NYC with a project that will lead her to have her first exhibition in Los Angeles in 2015 and her first monographic publication with Nazraeli press.
Later she joined the collections of museums such as LACMA, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, Hudson's Bay Company in New York City and the Center for Creative Photography in Arizona, where in 2018 she exhibited in a group show with Ansel Adams, Lee Friedlander , Gary Winogrand, Arnold Newman and Edward Weston.
She has been working for several years with two galleries in America, Paul Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles and Euqinom Gallery in San Francisco, participating in various international fairs, such as AIPAD in NYC and PHOTOLA and publishing in various international newspapers such as, Wall Street Journal, Photograph and HARPER'S.
She lives and works between Italy and America since 2015.
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entry description
Dozing beneath the veil of Maya, we proceed to an imaginary reality in a prison of the mind. These cages of winged creatures, whose walls have been painted by man with their respective natural habitats, are an attempt to create a fictitious reality which can deceive the prisoner into believing he or she lives in a true yet intangible world.After a period spent in the midst of thousands of sounds, my wish was to photograph silence. Wandering, I reached the Bronx Zoo, free to move about and photograph for hours. I noticed a sense of freedom which made me feel serene, in a dimension suspended between earth and the heavens. My only connection to reality was through sounds, simple, primitive. Not unlike the cries with which people and birds make their way into the world, with nothing more than simple syllables, such as “da-da” or “ma-ma.” Shot after shot, the singsong of baby talk reached my ears. Whether in suffering or liberty, the mysterious song of birds leaves an indelible trace, which, like cages set into a wall, will eternally preserve the lives and voices of those who inhabited them.
Each photograph was taken in a section of the Bronx Zoo in NYC called ‘The World of Birds’. Every photo represent a bird’s cage. The idea was then to associate these cages to the different places I used to live around the world.The titles of the photograph were created by extrapolating the vowels of the address of each home where I have lived, from birth to the present; these vowels represent that which has remained of each house, as if they were memories. All these places have been to me sometimes like nests and sometimes like cages.
about the photographer
Giorgia Valli (Bergamo Italy, 1985) graduated in visual arts from the European Institute of Design in 2008.Later in 2013 she moved for a while to New York City, where she attended several courses at the ICP and worked for a magazine, photographing the various and numerous activities of the City.
She leaves NYC with a project that will lead her to have her first exhibition in Los Angeles in 2015 and her first monographic publication with Nazraeli press.
Later she joined the collections of museums such as LACMA, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, Hudson's Bay Company in New York City and the Center for Creative Photography in Arizona, where in 2018 she exhibited in a group show with Ansel Adams, Lee Friedlander , Gary Winogrand, Arnold Newman and Edward Weston.
She has been working for several years with two galleries in America, Paul Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles and Euqinom Gallery in San Francisco, participating in various international fairs, such as AIPAD in NYC and PHOTOLA and publishing in various international newspapers such as, Wall Street Journal, Photograph and HARPER'S.
She lives and works between Italy and America since 2015.
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