For everyone, the image of their face is the primary way to represent themselves. In the
age of the Internet, how should we interpret this ? These series are collages based on my
photo portraits. I aim to explore the meaning of the presence of billions of virtual
images and to give an example of a creative interaction with them. For this purpose I have
used my portraits and the Google images search engine.Today Google can explore the entire
universe of the web, and more and more it resembles a sort of collective conscience that
memorizes, reproduces and connects words and images everywhere. Google has in this sense a
social function, since it shows how we are now, how we were once, and how we represent our
lives and ideas. The Google images search engine not only finds photos associated with a
word, but also automatically it shows all the images present on the web, similar in colour
and form to an image that we upload. I thought of using this function to create some
collages based on my female portraits.
In the center of the collage there is my photo, around these there are the small
thumbnails of images from Google Image associated to that portrait. In this way, Google
Image compares my photo portraits - taken in accordance with my specific photographic
style and my cultural and visual background - together with all the images (paintings,
photos, drawings) existing on the web. It seems to me that the final result is striking
and metaphoric, in some cases even ironic.
In the center of the collage there is my photo, around these there are the small
thumbnails of images from Google Image associated to that portrait. In this way, Google
Image compares my photo portraits - taken in accordance with my specific photographic
style and my cultural and visual background - together with all the images (paintings,
photos, drawings) existing on the web. It seems to me that the final result is striking
and metaphoric, in some cases even ironic.
My aim is to capture extraordinary out of ordinary and to express it, wherever it might be: buildings, people or nature.
Awards 2019 - Winner of the 3rd Prize at IPA – International Photo Awards Category Professional Fine Art/Abstract
2018 – Winner of the 3rd Prize at Moscow Intern.Foto Awards (MIFA), Category Profess. Architecture/Industrial
2017 - Winner of the 2nd Prize at Moscow Intern.Foto Awards (MIFA), Category Profess. Architecture/Industrial
2017 – Honorable mention (“Netaphors” series) at the professional London Internationa Creative Competition LICC
2016 – Winner of the 2nd Prize at Tokyo Intern.Foto Awards (TIFA), Category Profess. Architecture/Industrial
2016 – Winner of the 2nd Prize at IPA- International Photo Awards, Category Profess. Architecture/Industrial
2016 – Winner of the 2nd Prize at IPA- International Photo Awards. Category Profess.Editorial/Environmental
2016 – International Color Awards – WINNER of the 3rd price in Professional /Americana Category
2015 - Winner of the 3rd Prize at IPA – International Photo Awards Category Professional Fine Art/Landscape
2015- Finalist at the Renaissance Photography Prize
2015 – Selected as Photographer of the year 2014 at the Worldwide Photography Gala Awards (WPGA) – Pollux Awards and awarded with the exhibition at the 4th Biennial of Fine Art and Documentary Photography that will be held on September 2016 in Berlin, Germany.
2015 – WINNER of the FIRST PRIZE at the Worldwide Photography Gala Awards (WPGA) – Pollux Awards category People, Culture and Daily Life/ Professional.
2014 – MIFA – Moscow International Photo Awards
Winner of the FIRST PRIZE : “The secret harmony”, Category Professional /Nature
2014 – IPA – International Photo Awards
Winner of the THIRD PRIZE – ” The secret Harmony”, Category Professional /Nature
2014 – Px3 – Prix de la Photographie de Paris: 12 awards:
Winner of the FIRST PRIZE – “Sparrow, delight of my girl” – Category Non prof- Fine Art/Nude
Winner of the FIRST PRIZE – “Father & Son”, Category Portrait, Family. Public choice Awards
Winner of the SECOND PRIZE – “Father and son” – Category Non prof.
