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Honorable Mention
Title:Cryptic Venus
The character of this photo is a woman from Lucca, Italy, and represent a feminine figure that shapes her life with her own will. In doing so, she deprives herself of her own identity and becomes symbolic icons. Although she is based on real person, the mystery that surrounds her lets the viewer enter an imaginary world, made up of ancestral fears and archetypes.
Biography:
Nicoletta Cerasomma is a photographer and pop surrealist artist with a background in staged photography. After studying photography since 1997, she realized her love for storytelling so, in the latest years, she had evolved from fashion photographer to independent artist focused on production of nuanced photographic tableaux.
Her work is highly conceptual and complex: as surrealist artist, she incorporates archetypes and cultural iconography with satirical narratives inspired by the collective unconscious. Leaning into the visual language of pop surrealism, she stages narrative... |