ENTRY DESCRIPTION
This picture is part of a series of images I took in Santa Monica, California. As I started walking along the beach, I decided to let myself be driven by the beautiful, strong light. It took me to people and situations that always surprised me and these encounters filled me with joy. When I selected the images for the series, I wanted them to look as spontaneous as a melody, a Rhapsody in Black & White.

AUTHOR
Sandra Cattaneo Adorno took up photography in 2013 at the age of 60 and has since gone on to garner extensive recognition for her work. The author of The Other Half of the Sky and Águas de Ouro (Radius Books, 2019 and 2020) Cattaneo Adorno’s work was recently published in Gulnara Samoilova’s landmark book Women Street Photographers (Prestel 2021) and Portrait of Humanity (Hoxton Mini Press, 2019). Cattaneo Adorno received the 2021 and 2020 Julia Margaret Cameron Award, the 2020 International Photography Award, the 2019 Portrait of Humanity Award in collaboration with Magnum Photos, and was a 2019 National Geographic finalist. She has exhibited work at Somerset House, London; Photoville, Brooklyn; Miami Street Photography Festival; Italian Photo Festival, Venice; PX3 Prix de la Photographie de Paris, Paris, and Women Street Photographers Exhibition in Paris, among many others.

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