In The Stillness of Waiting

• Prize
  Gold in Analog / Film/Fine Art
• Jury Top 5 Selection

  Frank Meo

• Photographer
  Renzo Cicillini
• Technical Info
  Analog Photography 6x6 Medium Format Film
• Photo Date
  October 2024

There’s a unique beauty, a moment where time stands still, and the pause becomes more meaningful than the destination. Sometimes, the act of waiting allows us to appreciate the quiet in-between moments. Photographed in Switzerland at Lake Geneva.

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.