findhorn foundation

• Prize
• Photographer
  giovanni presutti, Italy
• Website
  http://www.giovannipresutti.com

The Findhorn Foundation is a spiritual community, ecovillage and an international centre for holistic education, helping to unfold a new human consciousness and create a positive and sustainable future built in 1962 in northen part of scotland. Sustainable values are expressed in the built environment with ecological houses, innovative use of building materials such as local stone and straw bales, beauty in the architecture and gardens, and applied technology in the Living Machine sewage treatment facility and electricity-generating wind turbines. Sustainable values are also expressed in the community's social, economic and educational initiatives.

• Biography
  Born in Florence, Italy, on 03 30 1965, where he still lives. In 1998 he graduates from the photography school Art.E in Florence. From 2003 to 2005 he develops the project â??Reflexionsâ?? in Paris, with others photographers under the supervision of Giorgia Fiorio and Gabriel Bauret. Then He had an intense exhibition activity in Italy and abroad either in public than private museums and gallery, the last one in saint Petersburg at the photography festival in september 2010. He got several prizes. First prize in A better world in 2008, in portfolio ariosto 2007, honored mention in 2008 and 2009 in italian professional photographer association Tau Visual award for photojournalism, two honored mention in IPA international photographer awards PRO in 2010. He published in several magazines, one of them Vanity fair. In 2008 he published his first book Mirror