El Vinculo-La Isla Project

• Photographer
  Marco Ferraris, Italy
• Socials
• Website
  http://www.marcoferraris.net

El Vinculo is the third part of the wider project, La Isla.

The bond, the union, manifested in relationships with another
human being.
Duality, the projection and exploration of ourselves through the
emotional proximity to the other.

• Biography
  Born 1978, Italy. Visual artist with deep interest in documentary projects, he has always practiced photography as a passion and as a pursuit of knowledge. After graduating in psychology in 2005 with a thesis on visual perception, begins his professional work in the reportage and portraits. In his latest project “La Isla” (2010-2018), where the island is an archetypal site and a place in which man is free to give life to new utopias of regeneration, he has combined photography and video at the same time counting with the participation of more than 70 performers. Currently lives in Ibiza.
• Awards
  2016 Second prize for Re-artiste International Art competition Naked 2016 The Video Art La Isla is selected for Madeira Film Festival 2015 Group Exhibition at Siena International Photography Awards 2014 Honorable Mention in Nude at Moscowfotoawards 2014 2014 Honorable Mention at the International Photography Awards (IPA) one shot- places 2014 Group Exhibition at Quarta Rassegna di Arte Contemporanea, Treviso 2014 Winner Shoot The Face, May 2014 2014 2014 Honorable Mention in Nude at the 7th Annual Photography Master Cup 2014 Selected for Unlimited Grain Gallery Contest 2014,Rotterdam 2014 Selected for Center Forward 2014 at The Center for Fine Art Photography,U.S.A. 2014 Group Exhibition for 3rd International Biennial of Fine Art Photography,Malaga 2014 Finalist at 6th Edition of Pollux Award in Fine Art & Nude & Figure 2014 Group Exhibition Love at Darkroom Gallery, U.S.A 2014 Digital Group Exhibition for See.me at Armony Week, New York 2014 Bronze finalist at Photo Shoot Awards Nude 2014 2013 Honorable mention at International photography awards (IPA)one-shoot 2013 Finalist for Fine Arts Nude at One Eyeland photography awards 2013 Honorable mention at GrandPrix de la Découverte, Paris 2013 C. I.J. Chissano, AsVozes das Águas, Maputo-Mozambique 2013 I’ll be your mirror at 1650 Gallery, Los Angeles 2012 Honorable mention at Prix de la Photographie, Paris 2011 Honorable mention at NVAL, North Valley-California 2011 The short film Zapatos Rojos at Notodo Film Festival, Madrid 2011 San Francisco International Photography Exhibition 2010 IEP at Festival Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia 2010 Italian Emerging Photography, Paris 2010 Selected for Descubrimientos PHE, Madrid 2010 Selected for Edicion de libros, Madrid 2009 In/Comunicazione exhibition, Genoa 2009 Honorable mention, Tau Visual, Milan, 2009 Finalist at the San Fedele Prize, Milan 2009 Slideshow at Fotosintesi Festival, Piacenza 2008 Collettivo 180, by VisionQuest art gallery, Genoa