Maredentro

• Prize
  Gold in Nature/Water
• Photographer
  Alma Bibolotti, Italy
• Website
  https://almabibolotti.wixsite.com/photoshoot
• Instagram
  @alma_bibolotti

I am so attracted to the sea that it captures me completely. The visual and physical contact with the water, its musical dimension, nourishes a strong emotional relationship that allows a kind of epiphany, a psychic reflection I try to show in this project. When I took these photos, I experienced a suspension of space and time where photographing became a purely intuitive act. The surface of the sea, its ‘skin’ embraced my gaze so that I plunged into its visual complexity: patterns of ripples, fragments of water and light offered me a wide range of new forms and colour combinations.

After graduating in Foreign languages, I moved to France where I lived for 6 years, between Paris and Nice. Photography became my way to express emotions, an inner and vital journey. Beyond technical aspects, I like challenging the rules to highlight forms and textures. Much of my work focuses on the language of nature: in its less 'visible' aspects I look for subjects to create something that resonates emotionally. I think that simple elements can sometimes evoke parallel worlds, opening gateways to an unconscious dimension so that the space explored outside can make 'visible' my inner gaze.

Awards 2024 Tokyo International Foto Awards | Bronze EDITORIAL – ENVIRONMENT series 'Dissolving Beauty'

2024 Tokyo International Foto Awards | Honourable Mention EDITORIAL – ENVIRONMENT series 'Xylella Ballad'

2024 Budapest International Foto Awards | Gold EDITORIAL – ENVIRONMENT series 'Dissolving Beauty

2024 Prix de la Photographie Paris (PX3) | Gold NATURE – WATER series 'Maredentro'

2024 Prix de la Photographie Paris (PX3) | Bronze NATURE – OTHER series 'Dissolving Beauty'

2023 Tokyo International Foto Awards | Bronze EDITORIAL – ENVIRONMENT, series 'The Waste Land'

2023 Tokyo International Foto Awards | Honourable Mention FINE ART – LANDSCAPE, series 'Maredentroì

2023 ND Photography Awards | Honourable Mention WATERSCAPES, series 'Maredentro'

2023 Urban Photo Awards /Matrix4design | Finalist ‘Icons of Architecture’, SM/ART/CHITECTURE

2023 Fine Art Photography Awards | Nominee SEASCAPE series 'Maredentro'

2022 Garden Photographer of the Year (London Royal Kew Gardens) | Highly commended, Precious

2022 Tokyo International Foto Awards | Bronze SCIENCE – ENVIRONMENT, series 'The Fragile Face'

2022 Budapest International Foto Awards | Honourable Mention FINE ART-LANDSCAPE, series 'Maredentro'

2022 ND Photography Awards | Honourable Mention WATERSCAPES, series 'Water Haiku'

2022 Urban Photo Awards | Finalist Spaces/New Buildings, single photo 'The Curve'
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2021 ND Photography Awards | Honourable Mention CONCEPTUAL, series 'Liquid entropy'

2021 Transversalidades - Fotografia sem Fronteiras | Honourable Mention, theme Natural heritage, landscapes and biodiversity, series 'Arborum sudaria'

2021 Wipplay, Mon environnement de travail (in association with Usimages) | Jury award winner

2021 Better Photography magazine, Urban Patterns | Honourable Mention

2019 Garden Photographer of the Year (London Royal Kew Gardens) | Finalist

2018 Wipplay | Jury third prize (experts Jean-Joseph Renucci and Alessandro Zuffi)