The Waste Land

• Prize
  Bronze in Editorial/Environmental
• Photographer
  Alma Bibolotti
• Technical Info
  Nikon D3000, Lightroom, Photoshop CS6
• Photo Date
  2020-2022
• Website
  https://almabibolotti.wixsite.com/photoshoot

A study carried out by the European Drought Observatory shows that the Summer of 2022 in Europe was the driest of the past two centuries: desertification is touching more than 1/5 of the Italian territory and Basilicata is among the regions most at risk. In the land studies of its Monte Cotugno dam, the largest water reservoir in Europe, I try to express my emotional perception of this dramatic situation through visions characterised by a diaphanous rendering of 'the Waste Land' showing the cracks caused by the receding waters as well as the ‘skeletons’ of ‘civilization’.

• Biography
  My relationship with photography started when I discovered Edward Weston, Mimmo Jodice, Mario Giacomelli, Lucien Clergue, and many other masters whose works strongly influenced my vision. Photography is an inner journey, vital to me. Much of my work focuses on the language of nature, on my relationship with landscape and the natural world. I aim to render what I feel while shooting, rather than what I witness. I also think that sometimes common objects and simple landscapes evoke parallel worlds where dreaminess and double meaning prevail so that outer space gives voice to my inner gaze.
• Awards
  2024 Tokyo International Foto Awards | Bronze EDITORIAL – ENVIRONMENT series 'Dissolving Beauty' 2024 Tokyo International Foto Awards | Honourable Mention EDITORIAL – ENVIRONMENT series 'Xylella Ballad' 2024 Budapest International Foto Awards | Gold EDITORIAL – ENVIRONMENT series 'Dissolving Beauty 2024 Prix de la Photographie Paris (PX3) | Gold NATURE – WATER series 'Maredentro' 2024 Prix de la Photographie Paris (PX3) | Bronze NATURE – OTHER series 'Dissolving Beauty' 2023 Tokyo International Foto Awards | Bronze EDITORIAL – ENVIRONMENT, series 'The Waste Land' 2023 Tokyo International Foto Awards | Honourable Mention FINE ART – LANDSCAPE, series 'Maredentroì 2023 ND Photography Awards | Honourable Mention WATERSCAPES, series 'Maredentro' 2023 Urban Photo Awards /Matrix4design | Finalist ‘Icons of Architecture’, SM/ART/CHITECTURE 2023 Fine Art Photography Awards | Nominee SEASCAPE series 'Maredentro' 2022 Garden Photographer of the Year (London Royal Kew Gardens) | Highly commended, Precious 2022 Tokyo International Foto Awards | Bronze SCIENCE – ENVIRONMENT, series 'The Fragile Face' 2022 Budapest International Foto Awards | Honourable Mention FINE ART-LANDSCAPE, series 'Maredentro' 2022 ND Photography Awards | Honourable Mention WATERSCAPES, series 'Water Haiku' 2022 Urban Photo Awards | Finalist Spaces/New Buildings, single photo 'The Curve' ? 2021 ND Photography Awards | Honourable Mention CONCEPTUAL, series 'Liquid entropy' 2021 Transversalidades - Fotografia sem Fronteiras | Honourable Mention, theme Natural heritage, landscapes and biodiversity, series 'Arborum sudaria' 2021 Wipplay, Mon environnement de travail (in association with Usimages) | Jury award winner 2021 Better Photography magazine, Urban Patterns | Honourable Mention 2019 Garden Photographer of the Year (London Royal Kew Gardens) | Finalist 2018 Wipplay | Jury third prize (experts Jean-Joseph Renucci and Alessandro Zuffi)