Regina Viarum

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Attilio Bixio, Italy
• Website
  http://www.attiliobixio.it
• Instagram
  instagram.com/attiliobixio

Via Appia Antica, also known as "Regina Viarum", is one of the most important roads built by the Romans. The road crosses Basilicata from Venosa to Genzano di Lucania and it’s included in the Unesco World Heritage sites since 2024.
It intersects some places involved by a great land reform in the 50s of the 20th century. But the reform proved to be a failure and now much of what was built in those years is abandoned or in ruins.
Today, in the same places, even the Via Appia Antica is only partially visible and it is quite abandoned, in a sort of desolating "harmony" with the surroundings.

I live in Potenza, Italy, where I work as an engineer, with an innate passion for photography.
The main focus of my personal photographic research is on the man-altered landscape, where I’m always looking for traces of human activity. Even places can tell us something about people living there, beyond their appearances.
My work has been exhibited in Cracow (Poland), Essex Junction (USA), Milano, Lodi, Trieste, Florence, Potenza and other places in Italy.

Awards 2024
Px3 - Prix de la Photographie Paris 2024. Honorable mention, “Fine art/landscape” category
Circuito OFF Narnimmaginaria, selected project
Aci Pistoia Photo Contest. Selected project, "Urban" category

2020
Siena International Photo Award 2020. Finalist

2019
Moscow International Foto Awards - MIFA 2019. Bronze, category "Portfolio – personal"
Belfast Photo Festival 2019 - Shortlisted project

2018
Urban Photo Awards 2018. Finalist project
Tokyo International Foto Awards 2017. Honorable mention, "Portfolio - personal" category
International Photography Awards - One Shot: Harmony. Honorable mention, "Nature" category

2017
International International Photography Awards 2017. Third place, "Editorial. Photo Essay and Feature Story" category
Lensculture Emerging Talent Awards 2017: Editor Pick
Urban Photo Awards 2017. Selected project

2016
Tokyo International Foto Awards 2016. Honorable mention, "Portfolio - personal" category
Tokyo International Foto Awards 2016. Honorable mention, "Architecture - cityscapes" category
Lensculture Emerging Talent Awards 2016: Editor Pick
International Photograhy Awards- IPA 2016. Honorable mention, "Fine art - landscape" category
Moscow International Foto Award- MIFA 2016. Honorable mention, "Architecture - cityscapes" category
Moscow International Foto Award- MIFA 2016. Honorable mention, "Fine art - landscape" category

2015
Moscow International Foto Award - MIFA 2015. Honorable mention, "Fine art - Still life" category