Kaleidoscope - Written On Your Body

• Prize
  Silver in Analog / Film/Fine Art
• Photographer
  Alma Bibolotti
• Technical Info
  Analog Film, Hand Writing On Paper, Scanner, Ps
• Photo Date
  2025

'Kaleidoscope': fragments of images and words reflecting the complexity, the fluidity of emotions and relationships. Is this not the essence of love? It is my way to express what silence cannot contain, an intimate journey formed by some photos of the body of a woman with whom I shared many years of my life: the choice of analogue emphasises the importance of time, memory and absence. Overlaying the photos with some fragments of thoughts, songs and poems is my way to represent in a visual diary the complexity of my emotions: separation, fear of loss, grief, and finally, transformation.

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.