Personal Project _ 2017 Series

• Prize
• Photographer
  Serena Carminati, Italy
• Website
  http://serenacarminati.com

These photographs are part of the 2017 series of my Personal
Project. This project is a playground in which I use ordinary object
in order to create images which tell different stories. My aim is to
look at things from a different perspective.

• Biography
  Serena Carminati is a still life photographer based in Genoa, Italy. While living in the UK for several years, she gained her BA Hons. in Graphic Design at Kingston University, after having studied photography on a BTEC National Diploma, at Brighton and Hove City College. Her approach to still life and food photography is often minimalistic, clean and elegant. Serena uses light, composition and colours to emphasise the natural beauty of the subject and convey emotions, in order to create simple but iconic images of ordinary objects. Her still life photography works won several important awards
• Awards
  Second Prize For Photography, D&AD Student Awards 2005 Honorable mention in the Fine Art : Still life Category, International Photography Awards IPA 2015 Commended at the Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year 2016 Awarded Bronze in the Still life Category (non-pro), Px3 Prix de la photographie Paris 2016Awarded 1st place in the Portfolio / Food Category (non-pro), Moscow International Foto Awards 2016Awarded 1st place in the Advertising / Food Category (pro), International Photography Awards IPA 2016 Commended at the Sony World Photography Awards 2017 Awarded Bronze in the Fine art / Still life Category (pro), Px3 Prix de la photographie Paris 2017 Awarded Gold in the Advertising/Food, Portfolio/Food and Fine Art/Still Life Categories (pro), Moscow International Foto Awards 2017 Awarded Silver in the Portfolio Category and Bronze in the Fine Art Category pro, at the Tokyo Foto Awards 2017