Photojournalism: Honorable Mention 2014 (professional)
ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Naples station. There's a special train here. A group of people is walking slowly, They haven't only bags or suitcases. There's something more. The white train is leaving the platform. Destination: Lourdes. In this train there are kids' voice, people cry, laugh, pray. The silence has a big weight. There's pain and strenght. Here I understood the meaning of true love. This sufference is helped by the power of faith.
AUTHOR
Antonio Gibotta, been born to Avellino in August of1988, since quickly approaches itself and he is gotten passionate to the photography. Very soon it transforms its passion in profession, accumulateinga remarkable baggage of experience in therealization of intense activities and reportage oftravel, in Italy and above all abroad. It succeeds to recut an own photographic identity, than obviouslyit suffers of its detached personality. Al center of itsobjective is the man and the thematic present timeof the social ones. A its photography does notneed words neither of sounds for being narrated, itshouts with its silences, deep and enigmatic like itsblack one. The photography of Antonio succeedsto rock the ropes of the emotion of who it observesit always maintaining a dose of mystery. A newinterpreter of the reportage and its deeper feelings:the rawness, the poetry, the dream, the purity ofimages that they know to arrive directly to theheart. During the last few years it has exposed toNew Yourk, France, China, Bruxell.
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