1st Place winner
"Keeping Things Whole"
DESCRIPTION
"In a fieldI am the absence of field.
This is always the case.
Wherever I am
I am what is missing.
When I walk
I part the air
and always
the air moves in
to fill the spaces
where my body’s been.
We all have reasons
for moving.
I move
to keep things whole."
(Keeping things whole, Mark Strand, from Reasons for Moving: Poems, 1968)
Technical Info: multi-exposures on color film kodak ektar 120mm, taken by Holga 120GN, © Tiziana Nanni 2013-2019
AUTHOR
I am Tiziana Nanni and for work I mainly deal with wedding photography. I soon realized that I needed to express myself, but before I got to doing it with photography, I walked along other paths, and I lost myself in all of them. Insecurity has often made me run away, hide and suppress desires and ambitions, choking my voice and the words in my throat most of the time I remember. My encounter with photography was surprising because, after searching for a long time, I started finally to see me: today I still hide myself, but in full light. It fascinates me to work with memory and dreams: these are elements and feelings that are always present in my photographic works, even in those where it is less evident.