Honorable Mention
The colors of the nature
DESCRIPTION
The dawn always marks the beginning of a new day on this earth.Behind the Albania's mountains the sun rays that raises up in the sky illuminates the Italian coast of Apulia, where an ex mine of bauxite create a surrealistic effect due to the contrast of its intense red ground with the green vegetation that surrounds it.
AUTHOR
Giacomo d'Orlando is an Italian documentary photographer currently based in New Zealand. He begun his career of professional photographer in 2011, when he was 21, working for a photographic studio in his born city, Verona.
After more than 3 years spent in the advertising photography industry, he decided to follow his true passion, the documentary photography. For this purpose, in 2015 he decided to move to Nepal where he begun his first long-term project about the Gender Based Violence. Since that time he specialize himself documenting social issues and environmental problems while occasionally is working for travel magazines.
In the last years he has been living in Nepal, Peru, Austrlia and now is currently living in New Zealand, where is carrying on a long term project about the Refugees of the Climate Change.
His purpose is report the social and environmental issues that our world is going through nowadays, giving to the people who don’t have the chance to travel the chance to raise their awareness about these important topics.
