honorable mention
Stefano Barattini italyPhoto © Stefano Barattini
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What future!
He begin his five year cooperation with the magazine Mototurismo in 1990, followed by that with Scooter Magazine, where he published several journey features and some additional articles on the scooter world.
After a pause for reflection, at the time when digital era was coming to life he went back to taking pictures taking advantage of the new technologies available. His focus was still on journeys and especially on Africa.
Architecture (with a special interest for the rationalist period) and the ever growing suburban spaces where human presence is, in his shots, absent most of the times, are themes that he cover periodically.
He’ve been photographing for about 5 years abandoned places with great interest and satisfaction, especially industrial areas.
Places that present a unique charm, resulting from lights and shadows, dust, odors and great silence, and most of all from memories. It is indeed such memories, these traces of the past, that he quest and, capture with this camera, getting lost in the surroundings trying to find the appropriate framing and the right light to best represent them.
This is a sort of parallel universe close to us that photography contributes to bringing back to life for an instant.
Recently he started to approach aerial photography by drone. This tool allows you to have a different view from those who are "down to earth”, and are able to record images of the area difficult to reach by the human eye if not using external tools such as helicopters or touring planes. His research is aimed at discovering which geometries are hidden in the construction and management of man-made fields.
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The world is changing, our home has to be preserved. We... must change!about the photographer
He started taking pictures in 1979, when he took up traveling. Since then, in his life, photographs and journeys merged together in an indissoluble bound.He begin his five year cooperation with the magazine Mototurismo in 1990, followed by that with Scooter Magazine, where he published several journey features and some additional articles on the scooter world.
After a pause for reflection, at the time when digital era was coming to life he went back to taking pictures taking advantage of the new technologies available. His focus was still on journeys and especially on Africa.
Architecture (with a special interest for the rationalist period) and the ever growing suburban spaces where human presence is, in his shots, absent most of the times, are themes that he cover periodically.
He’ve been photographing for about 5 years abandoned places with great interest and satisfaction, especially industrial areas.
Places that present a unique charm, resulting from lights and shadows, dust, odors and great silence, and most of all from memories. It is indeed such memories, these traces of the past, that he quest and, capture with this camera, getting lost in the surroundings trying to find the appropriate framing and the right light to best represent them.
This is a sort of parallel universe close to us that photography contributes to bringing back to life for an instant.
Recently he started to approach aerial photography by drone. This tool allows you to have a different view from those who are "down to earth”, and are able to record images of the area difficult to reach by the human eye if not using external tools such as helicopters or touring planes. His research is aimed at discovering which geometries are hidden in the construction and management of man-made fields.
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