Honorable Mention
MOVE
DESCRIPTION
Living an unstable and intense life is wonderful but at the same time destabilizing. With "MOVE", a self-portrait, I wanted to translate the mental chaos that has characterized me in recent months, into an image full of nuances as my life. Since the beginning of 2023 I've made 4 moves, moved to 3 different cities and met so many people. As wonderful as it is, leaving a new place and starting all over again after a short time is stressful and destabilizing. In "MOVE" I wanted to take up all the clothes that accompanied me on these trips, rekindling colors and scents, precise memories, very impressionable moments in my mind. In all of this there is me, always wearing the reason that prompted me to live this life; among the many clothes I've had to wear, I feel like a dress too, a dress thrown away. It camouflages me in my chaos. Every single element is fundamental in itself, everything is mixed. But seen from a distance, it creates itself as a wonderful palette, exhausted after having contributed to the creation of the masterpiece but always there ready to come back to life and add more and more color, always having more memories even though it often hurts to leave everything. AUTHOR
My name is Emily, I’m 23 years old. Creating images is my passion since I was 16 and now it also became part of my job: I'm a radiographer and I spend my free time creating photos and graphics. Photography is my first modality of comunication;I belong to conceptual photography and I deeply believe in emotional power of photos. In my photos I identify a particular period of my life and often I am the subject of my works. Talking self-portraits gives me the chance to accept my body with my physical and psychological scars. Introspection and self-talking are the pillars of my works. I give extreme importance to colors and the choice of background. I often take pictures in my parents home, place where I grew up. Beacause of my job, I’m traveling around Italy and right now I’m far away from home. I take this chance to discover new places and people and to see news sides of myself. I sincerely hope to continue with this passion that give me the chance to explain lmany things that I would never be able to explain in any other way.