Magic reality

• Prize
  Bronze in Special/Others “Special”
• Photographer
  Pierluigi Ciambra, Italy
• Website
  https://www.pierluigiciambra.com/
• Instagram
  https://www.instagram.com/pierluigiciambra/

Childhood seen through everyday life can be an alienating action for an adult’s eye. Memories are nuanced, uncertain and distant from reality.
It’s like suddenly losing your orientation and finding yourself in another, almost magical world, where you are balancing boundaries between reality and fantasy.
A tangible and at the same time dreamlike dimension in which it seems that everything is possible, as if it were transcending and even surpassing time.
And yet the representation is realistic, attentive and precise. Even apparently irrelevant details emerge and they acquire magical elements.

Born in Palermo in 1978, he has lived in Cosenza since 2007. Graduated in 2002 from the photography course at the European Institute of Design in Rome, he later graduated in Theories and Practices of Anthropology with a thesis on Visual Anthropology entitled "Ethnophotography - Research with and on images", at La Sapienza University of Rome (2006).

Awards In June 2020, his "Magic Real Life" project was selected as the best portfolio at the IMP festival - International Month of Photojournalism, and became part of the Italian Collection of the Italy Photo Award.