Venice, B side

• Prize
  Silver in Press/General News
• Photographer
  MAURIZIO TARGHETTA, Italy
• Date of Photograph
  year 2018/2019
• Socials
• Website
  http://www.mauriziotarghetta.it

My project wants to tell the other Venice.
Not the millennial and art city made of stereotypes that by now survive only in the collective imagination but the real city that has totally lost its identity.
Subjected to unsustainable tourist pressure, Venice has turned into an amusement park, a "disposable" container, a large machine for doing business.
In this sense, for me, Venice today represents an extraordinary laboratory of human dementia.

• Biography
  I was born in the province of Padua and live in the province of Bologna. My first experiences were in cinema with the making of some short films and then two fiction films, one of which participated in the Venice International Film Festival. These experiences were followed by some collaborations with Italian television. I have been dedicated to photography for many years. My interest focuses mainly on street photography (understood as anthropological documentation) and on a thorough investigation of "marginal" landscapes.
• Awards
  2024 Prix de la Photographie, Paris (Px3) Bronze in the Book/Document category. 2023 Prix de la Photographie, Paris (Px3) 2nd place in the Book category. Gold in Documentary Book. 2022 Prix de la Photographie, Paris (P×3) Honorable mention 2021 Prix de la Photographie, Paris (P×3) Honorable mention December 2019 Life Framer Collection with the project VENICE B SIDE October 2019 Urban 2019 Photo Awards: Finalist – Projects & Portfolios June 2019 Prix de la Photographie, Paris (P×3): Silver Award, Press/General News February 2019 It comes out in USA Street Photography, published by Acuity Press with the winning photos of the competition organized by the publishing house in collaboration with the PDN Photo District News magazine. Exhibition 2018 September/December – Spazio Esperienze Davide Groppi – Bologna, Italy: Look Down – Personal exhibition February – Blank Wall Gallery, Athens – Greece: Group exhibition – International Photographers – Monochrome January – Blank Wall Gallery, Athens – Greece: Group exhibition – International Photographers – Street Photography May 2017 Street Photography 2016 presented by Acuity Press and PDN – Photo District News N.Y.: Winner. January 2017 URBAN unveils the City and its secrets – vol. 02 December 2016 – LensCulture: 100 remarkable street photographers and images discovered by our editors in 2016. July 2016 Publishing the book “Italian Street Photography” with the ISP collective. Moscow International Foto Awards 2016: Honorable mention with the series Doors in Venice. Exhibition 2017 Treviso Street Festival. Exhibition 2016 Mostra collettiva di Italian Street Photography. Rassegna Mutamenti – Orvieto Fotografia – 26/27/28 Febbraio 2016. Exhibition 2015 Mostra collettiva del progetto Italian Street Photography Aeroporto FVG – Ronchi dei Legionari (GO). Il Piacere di Leggere: personal exhibition all’Articioch, Bologna. New International Exhibition for URBAN Photo contest in Trieste Airport, Italy.