The Side of Summer - The Stillness of Memory

• Prize
  Silver in Analog / Film/Fine Art
• Photographer
  Renzo Cicillini
• Agency / Studio
  Renzo Cicillini
• Technical Info
  Analogue 6x6 Photography, Over 25 Years Expired 120 Film
• Photo Date
  August 2025

The Side of Summer looks at those spaces where summer turns quiet. They are places removed from abundance and noise. The series brings together scenes from the season itself and from its aftermath, all carrying a nostalgic patina. It is never clear when they were captured. The difference lies in the narrative. Summer does not appear as a peak, but as a side: as an echo, as an interval, as a quiet presence at the edge. Photographed on analogue with over 25-year-old expired medium format film.

Renzo Cicillini creates analog photographs shaped by light, reduction, and cinematic calm. His images are precisely composed, often to the edge of graphic rigor – yet remain grounded in the materiality of film. He works with current as well as rare and sometimes decades-old film stocks, selecting each deliberately to serve the subject. His central body of work, Silent Frames, does not treat stillness as a subject but as an atmosphere. Each series explores a different dimension: transition, expectation, vastness, communication, or motion.