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 Bronze | Tokyo International Foto Awards 2023, category EDITORIAL – ENVIRONMENT with the series ‘The waste Land’.

Honourable Mention | Tokyo International Foto Awards 2023, category FINE ART – LANDSCAPE with the series ‘Maredentro’.

Honourable Mention | ND photography Awards 2023, category WATERSCAPES with the series ‘Maredentro'.

Finalist | Urban Photo Awards 2023/Matrix4design, category ‘Icons of Architecture’ with the single photo 'SM/ART/CHITECTURE'

Nominee | Fine Art Photography Awards 2023, Category SEASCAPE with the series ‘Maredentro’.

Highly commended | Garden Photographer of the Year 2022, run in association with the London Royal Kew Gardens with the single photo ‘Precious’.

Bronze | Tokyo International Foto Awards 2022, category SCIENCE – ENVIRONMENT with the series ‘The Fragile Face’.

Honourable Mention | Budapest International Foto Awards 2022, category FINE ART-LANDSCAPE with the series ‘Maredentro’.

Honourable Mention | ND photography Awards 2022, category WATERSCAPES with the series 'Water Haiku'.

Finalist | Urban Photo Awards 2022, category single photos/Spaces/New Buildings with the single photo 'The Curve'

Honourable Mention | Transversalidades - Fotografia sem Fronteiras 2021 organized by the CEI (Centro estudios ibericos) for the theme Natural heritage, landscapes and biodiversity with the series 'Arborum sudaria' .

Jury award winner | Mon environnement de travail (2021, Wipplay in association with Usimages) with the single photo 'In her fabric store, La Valletta, Malta'.

Honourable Mention | Urban Patterns (2021, Better Photography magazine) with 'Foster UAE Pavilion'.

Finalist | Garden Photographer of the Year 2019, run in association with the London Royal Kew Gardens with the single photo 'Lilies in a pond'.

Jury third prize | XXS (2018, Wipplay, experts Jean-Joseph Renucci and Alessandro Zuffi) with 'Can you see me?' and publication in the French magazine Causette.