WINNERS

Io Non (I Do Not)

  • Photographer
    Gianluca Mainiero, Italy
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention

The project "Io non" (I do not) was created on impulse: the shots were taken for "therapeutic" purposes rather than moved by artistic inspiration. They were my personal way of expressing painful intimate circumstances in the hope that the photograph-based narrative of a deeply distressing situation could relieve the anguish or even completely heal it. I felt the need to become the very subject of these shots; hence the decision to make use of the self-timer for a series of photographs. The complete sequence includes nineteen black and white analogue photographs on high-sensitivity film.