October 28, 2016

Meet the Digital

I’m part of MeetTheDigital, a project organized by @corriere_it and @1415mobilephotographers on the encounter between digital technology and everyday life. How innovation is contaminating our daily life? The project is entrusted to 40 photographers from around the world, as part of 14&15 Mobile Photography collective, who will show how their countries are moving from a traditional culture to an innovative one. This image will be presented along with the rest of my work at the international convention on the digital and innovation ITALIA DIGITALE, to be held in Milan (Italy) on November 7-8, 2016. Follow #MeetTheDigital project on @corriere_it and @1415mobilephotographers. More information about the project on www.1415mobilephotographers.com and www.corriere.it/italia-digitale

Central place in a sicilian town early in the morning





July 12, 2016

Highly Commended and Nominées

La Grande Photo Awards 2016: 
3 of my photographs are among the Highly Commended selection (People, Portrait and Wildlife categories); another 4 photographs are Nominées (Abstract, People, Portrait and Still Life categories)
All the photographs will be included in the La Grande Photo Book.
more on: http://galleries.lagrande.photo


July 1, 2016

MIFA 2016

A selection of my work Aboard has received the honorable mention at Moscow International Foto Awards 2016 (MIFA), category Travel / Tourism.




http://moscowfotoawards.com/winners/hmention.php?compName=MOSCOW+2016

June 12, 2016

First Place Winner

ABOARD is the Travel Category Winner at the Fine Art Photography Awards 2016.

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April 29, 2016

exhibition in San Francisco

Jules Maeght Gallery
features the winners of the All About Photo Awards

Opening Reception: Thursday, May 19th, 6-9pm
Exhibition on view: May 17th – May 28th, 2016

The winning images of the first annual juried photography awards hosted by All About Photo will be exhibited at the Jules Maeght Gallery in San Francisco in less than a month! The ten international jurors (Julia Fullerton-Batten, Sandrine Hermand-Grisel, Frank Horvat, Ann Jastrab, Ed Kashi, Jules Maeght, Klavdij Sluban, Keiichi Tahara, Ami Vitale, and Cara Weston) viewed and scored nearly 5,000 images for this inaugural competition. As one of the jurors, I was overwhelmed not only by the number of submissions, but also by the quality of the submissions. There were so many dynamic images from around the world that it was difficult to choose only 5 for top honors.



Simona Bonanno from Italy won fifth place with her photograph from her ongoing series, Aboard: a visual journey which witnesses the fascinating anonymity of passengers and crew members living on the temporary small, brilliant cities on the sea that are the cruise ships.
 
The Jules Maeght Gallery will be exhibiting these 5 award winning photographs along with monitors* playing many of the highest scoring pictures from the jurors’ merit gallery. Come view these powerful photographs for yourself at the opening reception on May 19th


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honorable mention at IPOTY

"Aboard" series has won an honorable mention at IPOTY, People/Travel category.

see the entry

April 19, 2016

shortlisted at Kolga Awards

My photo Kick Scooter in the Palais Royal has been shortlisted in the Mobile One Shot Category at the Kolga Photo Award 2016.
Catalog for Kolga Photo Award 2016 (my shortlisted image at page 350)
see the catalogue


April 6, 2016

All About Photo The Mind's Eye

I'm honored to be one of the top winners of All About Photo The Mind's Eye Awards!
The prestigious members of the jury, Julia Fullerton-Batten, Sandrine Hermand-Grisel, Frank Horvat, Ann Jastrab, Ed Kashi, Jules Maeght, Klavdij Sluban, Keiichi Tahara, Amy Vitale, and Cara Weston voted for my image among 5000 entries!
My photo Aboard#39 has won the fifth place; it will be exhibited in May at Maeght Gallery in San Francisco, California.

visit the Winners gallery
go to All About Photo website
visit my personal page as Emerging Photographer on all-about-photo.com
about the photo: Aboard # 39. Port of Katakolo, Greece. 2015 (Ionian Sea). People in the line to Teton board after the excursion at the Olympia Greek temples. 
The photo is part of the Aboard series (2012-still ongoing): a visual journey to witness the fascinating anonymity of passengers and crew members living the temporary small, brilliant cities on the sea that are the cruise ships.