Honorable Mention
Black Bodice
DESCRIPTION
When I meet a person to be my subject, I get immediately engaged into the search of his/her personality looking for inspiration. I want to be able to dive into my subject so He/She can get the most of me.When I thought about this portrait I wanted to give an ethereal and subtle air in which the woman captures all the attention before our very eyes. This is why I choose this so soft lighting, in line with the smoothness of the skin of this woman. And this illumination, however, reveals everything, without hiding any details.
Being a partial nude I did not want to make it provocative, so both turn as the languid nod of the head give the work a timeless subtlety (hence the finish old photographic techniques as opposed to the relative present zipper bodice). The woman closed eyes end to confer that sense of abandonment subtle indifference, eliminating any sexual content to the image.
All this and the chromatic range used provided with a warm sensuality to this photographic artwork.
This Fine Art artwork is a Gliceé print on Canson Rag Photographique 310g paper, in my opinion the very best paper that fits my photographic vision. The color reproduction and smooth texture of this paper is outstanding.
AUTHOR
Antonio Peinado is a Spanish photographer, born in the summer of 1963 in Andújar in Andalucía. He lived there until he settled down in Pamplona in 1981. He has always felt drawn to photography. When Antonio was 15, he began to read and teach himself about photography, developing a passion for the art form as he learned.Antonio opened his photography studio in 2006. He began to work as a social and commercial photographer for businesses, marketing agencies and private clients. At the same time, he gave photography classes to university students studying design.
His creative curiosity and perfectionism pushed him to search for new ways of expressing himself through photography, especially through portraiture.
FEPFI Distinguished Photographer, in recent years Antonio has received recognition in a variety of countries for his work. Most recently being Gold Medal in Moscow International Foto Awards 2018, category Fine Art (Moscow, Russian Federation. May 2018); Outstanding Achievement Winner in The Black & White Spider Awards, XII Edition, category: Nude. (Beverly Hills, October 2017); First Prize Winner in the 1st Monovisions Photography Awards, category: Nude (London, August 2017); First Prize Winner in the 3rd Fine Art Photography Awards, category: Nude (London, April 2017) and receiving the distinction QEP, one of the most prestigious international acknowledgements given by the FEP, and the Best Spanish Photographer of the Year in Illustrative Art award given by the FEPFI in 2016.
