Memory traces

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Floriana Avellino, Italy
• Website
  https://www.florianaavellinophoto.com/en/
• Instagram
  https://www.instagram.com/floriana_avellino/

A man born in the 1930s in a poor family from northern Italy. Perfect pitch and strong musical talent, he embarked on a career which took him to Lebanon, Iran, Tuscany, France with a woman met on a musical evening who would follow him on all his travels around the world. A life beyond stereotypes and categorizations fueled by a unique love. Like Marcel Proust I believe in the evocative power of objects. They told me a lot about my in-laws' travels, encounters and vision of life. Indeed I chose objects to tell the feeling behind this story as a tribute to my in-laws who recently passed away

Avellino, a contemporary Italian photographer, investigates reality through the "beyond" and dreamy, suspended atmospheres. She uses photography to challenge fixed ideas, questioning perception's objectivity and creating a meeting point between dream and reality. Her projects often emerge from liminal, in-between spaces that are full of possibilities. Avellino also views identity not as innate but as a continuous historical, cultural, and social construction. Even minimalistic details become symbols, functioning as a visual synecdoche where a part represents a tension toward the whole

Awards 2025 - PX3 (PRIS DE LA PHOTOGRAPHY PARIS) - Gold award, Special category (series) - Honorable Mention, Architecture category (single)
2025 - SAUL LEITER Contest, Vertigo Syndrome/diChroma Photography, Monza Villa Reale
2025 - IPA (INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS) - Honorable mention, People, Street Photography
2025 - FINE ART AWARDS - Honorable Mention, Architecture

2024 - TIFA (Tokyo International Foto Awards) - Honorable mention, Architecture category (abstract - series and Street photography category)
2024 - BIFA (Budapest International Foto Awards) - Silver, Architecture category (abstract - series) and Honorable mention, Street photography category
2024 - ND AWARDS - Honorable mention, Architecture category (series) and Editorial
2024 - IMACRES AWARDS - Honorable mention, People and Fine Art categories
2024 - DODHO COLOR AWARDS - Best images
2024 - ARCHITECTURE MASTERPRIZE - Exterior architecture photography award, winner, Bridges category
2024 - PX3 (PRIS DE LA PHOTOGRAPHY PARIS) - Bronze award, Architecture category (series)
2024 - MONOVISION AWARDS - Honorable mention, Architecture category (series);
2024 - FINE ART AWARDS - Honorable Mention, Architecture / Street Photography

2023 - CHROMATIC AWARDS - Honorable mention, Architecture category;
2023 - IPA (INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS) - Honorable mention, Editorial/Press category;
2023 - MONOVISION AWARDS - Honorable mention, Architecture category (single);
2023 - MINIMALIST PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS - Honorable mention, Architecture category;
2023 - PX3 (PRIS DE LA PHOTOGRAPHY PARIS) - Honorable mention;

2022 - CHROMATIC AWARDS - Honorable mention, Architecture category;
2022 - IPA - Honorable Mention, Architecture category, Official Selection, People / Architecture category;
2022 - IPA ONE SHOT (Colors) - Honorable mention, Architecture category;
2022 - MONOVISION AWARDS - Honorable mention, Architecture category (series)
2022 - MINIMALIST PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS - Honorable mention, Night Photography