/ 2021 / Portraiture / Self-Portrait

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Paola Ruvioli, Italy
• Website
  https://www.paolaruvioli.com/
• Instagram
  https://www.instagram.com/paolaruvioli_photography/

If I could suddenly close my eyes and fly above the clouds, free to express who and what I am, would I be able to say that I have found my true nature? Could I say that I am happy?
“Where is my beauty?” is a photographic project born from of the need to describe my inner self, while tracing the journey towards rediscovering my true essence.
These images reveal the my personal conflict between emotionality and rationality, in an attempt to describe the feelings that arise from being in the middle, poised between two between two worlds, waiting for an inner change.

My work focuses on the intimate relationship between individuals, and their unique psychological perspective in the worlds we inhabit, with particular sensitivity to human behavior. My images investigate the myriad sensations and perceptions encountered in our daily surroundings, with the intention of reflecting back more acutely to viewers their emotionally resonant potential.By referencing specific moods viewers are inspired to revisit sensations and passages into parallel realities typical of the world of dreams and their interpretation, creating emotional pathways that attempt to reveal...

Awards International Juried Art Competition, 11th Portrait, Finalist Award, Teravarna Art Gallery,2025
Open Theme Nominee at the 11th Fine Art Photography Awards 2025
Winner of 1st place Chiaroscuro, Decagon Gallery, 2025
Winner of 1st place of People-Self Portrait 21st.Pollux Award 2024
Winner of 1st place of People-Self Portrait 23rd. Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers 2024
Honorable Mentions at Prix de la Photographie Paris (Px3) Categories Portraiture/Self-Portrait 2021
Winner of 3st place of People-Self Portrait International Photography Awards 2020
Winner of 1st place of People-Self Portrait Moscow International Foto Awards 2020
Honorable Mentions at 14th Julia Margaret Cameron Award Categories Nature Trought People 2020
Winner of 3st place of People-Self Portrait Tokyo International Foto Awards 2019
Winner of 1st place of People-Self Portrait Budapest International Foto Awards 2019
Winner of 3rd place of Editorial - Personality Moscow International Foto Awards 2019
Honorable Mentions at 13th Julia Margaret Cameron Award Open Theme 2019
Winner of 2nd place of Intimacy Section of the IPC2018
Selezionata alla XXXII trofeo fotografico Internazionale Andrea Pollitzer Trieste