honorable mention
Edo Piantadosi italy
title
Fragile Forms
The subjects I focus on have defined, accomplished, autonomous forms. Shapes that I 'reveal' through photos that highlight and enhance the geometries hidden in nature, giving life to abstract images with a strong graphic impact.
But it is the framing cut that I consider the real aesthetic tool. With it, on the one hand I 'choose' the form by initiating the creative process, the so-called 'detachment from the multiplicity of possibilities'; on the other hand, I circumscribe the subject and extract and isolate it from the context with the precise intent of making the form abstract and at the same time shifting the observer's interest from the object: the context, the landscape as a whole, to the subject: the single form.
The resulting images generally produce a disorienting effect, leading the observer, in my intentions, to look deeply into the subject from a different point of view, and to interpret it as something beyond the natural element actually represented.
The 'fragile forms', once photographed and thus revealed to the observer, produce suggestive images capable of inducing the viewer to draw on his or her imagination in search of personal and intimate equivalences and associations.
I have taken these photos in recent winters, with a very close framing. They are not macro
For many years I have explored the natural environment of the area where I live in search of the beauty of natural forms, their aesthetic and artistic qualities. This persistent work on the shapes of natural elements in recent years has resulted in a series of abstract naturalistic photographs, which I only recently decided to exhibit.
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entry description
With the series FRAGILE FORMS, I aim to take the observer on an enthralling journey to discover the most intimate and intrinsic aesthetic nuances of ice.The subjects I focus on have defined, accomplished, autonomous forms. Shapes that I 'reveal' through photos that highlight and enhance the geometries hidden in nature, giving life to abstract images with a strong graphic impact.
But it is the framing cut that I consider the real aesthetic tool. With it, on the one hand I 'choose' the form by initiating the creative process, the so-called 'detachment from the multiplicity of possibilities'; on the other hand, I circumscribe the subject and extract and isolate it from the context with the precise intent of making the form abstract and at the same time shifting the observer's interest from the object: the context, the landscape as a whole, to the subject: the single form.
The resulting images generally produce a disorienting effect, leading the observer, in my intentions, to look deeply into the subject from a different point of view, and to interpret it as something beyond the natural element actually represented.
The 'fragile forms', once photographed and thus revealed to the observer, produce suggestive images capable of inducing the viewer to draw on his or her imagination in search of personal and intimate equivalences and associations.
I have taken these photos in recent winters, with a very close framing. They are not macro
about the photographer
I was born in Tarvisio, a small town on the Italian side of the Alps, on the border with Austria and Slovenia. I graduated in architecture in Venice and, during my studies, I attended the photography course of Italo Zannier, one of the best-known Italian photographers and historians of photography, and that is when I developed my interest in photography, which I initially directed towards nature photography and later towards abstract naturalism.For many years I have explored the natural environment of the area where I live in search of the beauty of natural forms, their aesthetic and artistic qualities. This persistent work on the shapes of natural elements in recent years has resulted in a series of abstract naturalistic photographs, which I only recently decided to exhibit.
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