Honorable Mention / 2016 / Book (series Only) / Other_B

Madre Tuscia

  • Photographer
    Daniele Vita, Italy

"MadreTuscia" is a photographic project born from its inception for a publication.
In 2014 I spent several months abroad for photographic works, each time before starting
and immediately after the return felt the need of contact with my land.
I grabbed my panoramic camera and I lost myself for the places of my childhood, I lost
myself in the woods, where I went with my grandmother as a child in search of mushrooms,
or three years I escaped with the tricycle to look for my loneliness.
I drove also new roads, walking I found wild animals, abandoned places that made me feel
at home.
My Tuscia is hostile and magnetic territory, collects in her womb Cain and Abel, the good
and the bad, the virginity of his land and its abandonment.
On this trip I have ever tried to find myself, I left everything live, the images reflect
my condition, my anxiety.

Daniele Vita was born in Vetralla in 1975.
It is photographer since 2008.
He has collaborated with UNHCR, ANCI, Arci, Fratelli Alinari, De Agostini, the municipality of Rome and other Italian magazine.
She works with several social associations and cooperatives, which Coop and Alice foundation Exodus.
In 2014 he won first prize at the award Castelnuovo photography
In 2012 he won a scholarship G.Tedde
In 2011 he was a finalist at the 2011 Unicef ​​Award POY
In 2009 and 2010 he was a finalist for the prize Scene Eyes
In 2009 he was a finalist at the Kiwanis prize Portfolio Italy
In 2008 he won first prize in the Tuscany photo festivals and in 2009 he won first prize south east (coop and solidarity)
In 2005 he was printer for the biennial photographic lens Man Environment.
Published "Mother Tuscia", and seven cities, Viterbo 2016 "Moral of the story", tell the resistance today, and. Purple Press, Rome, 2009, "That someone plays someone is", ed. Publishing and Entertainment, Rome, 2009.
He has exhibited in "Ruins, Rome Altemps palace in 2015, Castelnuovo Harbour Photography in 2015, in Citerna photography in 2012, to Mia, Milan Image Art Fair in 2011, the Tuscany photo festival in 2010, the Italian Center for photography d 'author in Bibbiena in 2009, to photograph-from Rome international Festival in 2008, in San Pier Scheraggio, Uffizi, Florence in 2007 by the brothers Alinari and the Sala Santa Rita in Rome in 2006.

Awards In 2014 he won first prize at the award Castelnuovo photography In 2012 he won a scholarship G.Tedde In 2011 he was a finalist at the 2011 Unicef Award POY In 2009 and 2010 he was a finalist for the prize Scene Eyes In 2009 he was a finalist at the Kiwanis prize Portfolio Italy In 2008 he won first prize in the Tuscany photo festivals and in 2009 he won first prize south east (coop and solidarity)