honorable mention
Alma Bibolotti italy
title
Maredentro
I am so attracted to the sea that it captures me completely. The visual and physical contact with the water but also its musical dimension, nourishes in me a strong emotional relationship that allows a kind of epiphany: its flow and its rhythm lead me to a psychic reflection that I try to show in these photographs. Therefore, 'Maredentro' means to me both ‘the sea inside’ and ‘inside the sea’. When I took these photos in the Ionian Sea of Salento, I was ‘inside the sea’, in order to live a particular intimacy with this element. I experienced a kind of spiritual freedom, a suspension of space and time where photographing became a purely intuitive act. The surface of the sea, its ‘skin’ embraced my gaze so that I plunged into its visual complexity: patterns of ripples and waves, ephemeral fragments of water and light offered me a vast range of abstract scenes where I sought new forms and colour combinations.
Photography plays a main role in my life: I don’t look for beauty but shadows and lights are a mean to shape my own reality. Taking pictures is an inner journey, my way to deal with my deepest emotions. Much of my work focuses on the language of nature in all its expressions, on my relationship with landscape and the natural world and in my images, I aim to render what I feel while shooting, rather than what I witness. The outer space gives voice to my 'inner gaze'.
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entry description
MAREDENTROI am so attracted to the sea that it captures me completely. The visual and physical contact with the water but also its musical dimension, nourishes in me a strong emotional relationship that allows a kind of epiphany: its flow and its rhythm lead me to a psychic reflection that I try to show in these photographs. Therefore, 'Maredentro' means to me both ‘the sea inside’ and ‘inside the sea’. When I took these photos in the Ionian Sea of Salento, I was ‘inside the sea’, in order to live a particular intimacy with this element. I experienced a kind of spiritual freedom, a suspension of space and time where photographing became a purely intuitive act. The surface of the sea, its ‘skin’ embraced my gaze so that I plunged into its visual complexity: patterns of ripples and waves, ephemeral fragments of water and light offered me a vast range of abstract scenes where I sought new forms and colour combinations.
about the photographer
I was born in Bari where I graduated in Foreign languages and literature. I moved to France where I lived and worked for 6 years, between Paris and Nice.Photography plays a main role in my life: I don’t look for beauty but shadows and lights are a mean to shape my own reality. Taking pictures is an inner journey, my way to deal with my deepest emotions. Much of my work focuses on the language of nature in all its expressions, on my relationship with landscape and the natural world and in my images, I aim to render what I feel while shooting, rather than what I witness. The outer space gives voice to my 'inner gaze'.
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