Live in Paris

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Michele Di Donato, Italy
• Date of Photograph
  2023
• Website
  http://www.micheledidonato.net
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“Live in Paris” gets us lost in the meanders of that inscrutable and intangible essence that runs through the French capital, but it surfaces in the stories I wanted to tell. Honorè de Balzac represented Paris as a bottomless ocean; I wanted to represent this literary image with a kind of visual vertigo contained in all the aesthetic-formal fragments in the book.

Underlying all the micro-stories told is the synesthesia of poetry that makes these photographs an intimate symbolic formula of an ever-changing city. I wanted to enact a narrative and interpretive imagery made up of places, things

Awards • FINALIST, in SIENA INTERNATIONAL PHOTO AWARD 2015;
• Honorable Mention for the portfolio "Sicilian People" in MOSCOW INTERNATIONAL PHOTO AWARD 2015;
• Winner in FIIPA International Awards 2016, Stories category with the portfolio "Rapid Eye Movement"
• Winner in 16th CHINA INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC AWARDS 2016 in “Documentary” and “Art” categories.

I exposed in numerous solo and collective exhibitions. My works were published in the best photographic italian magazine.