Portrait: Honorable Mention 2014 (professional)
ENTRY DESCRIPTION
In the north lands between the Chinese mountains we can found a lot of ethnic groups, such as the Hmong or Miao, the Tay, the biggest population, and the Lu. Most of them are farmers. They were organized under the lunar cycle. The markets are full of animals and fabrics, artifacts of all types. Unfortunately, the Occidental influence is replacing the old traditions.
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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