The two dragons

• Prize
• Photographer
  Jacopo Quaranta, Italy
• Studio
  Jacopoquaranta

ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder in adulthood) it is still an unknown issue
for the many, and people often simplify as "crazy" human being with the disorder.
The disorder consist in not having full control of the frontal part of the brain which
relates to the control of words and relationships as you would like.
The emotions have a dominating role and when you can't dominate you act with impulsive
behavior.
This series wants to show the harshness of finding my own identity and trying to have
supremacy on a chronic-neurological disorder, which many times brings you in the rabbit
hole without even realizing it.
It is like two dragons fighting each others inside your head, two different continues
flow to follow, one that pulls you back into the darkness and the other one that push you
outside to the light.
Sometimes when you think you have the full dominance because you are full of light you can
get shattered into pieces.

• Awards
  It won the 2nd prize at the IPA in the general news section in 2007 and was published on the Big Issue Magazine and online on repubblica.it, foto8.com, burnmagazine.com. It has been exhibited in 2009 at WinePhoto Festival in Italy. From 2007 to 2008 I worked as retoucher and printer at 10b Photography. In 2010 I’ve completed the Photojournalism and Documentary degree at the ICP of NY. In 2011 My project on sleeping revolutioners was published by Time and I have won the 1st place at the IPA2011 in Photo Essay, Feature story, General News and I was finalist as Best photographer of the year. I’ve been in Beyruth where I attended Nikos Economopolous workshop. My other Publications include: The Wall street Journal, Fader, Burnmagazine.org, Foto8.com, The British Journal of Photography, AM New York, Galatea, National Geographic Traveler Italy.