Here are the four winning projects for the exhibition-prize at the Civic Museum Sartorio in Trieste
For the sixth year in a row, the collaboration between URBAN Photo Awards and the Municipality of Trieste will give life to a prestigious exhibition-award at the Civico Museo Sartorio for four finalist projects in the 2023 edition of the contest.
The projects on display were selected by Claudia Colecchia, (archivist executive officer and head of the Photo Library – Fototeca and the Library of the Civic Museums of Trieste – Biblioteca dei Civici Musei di Storia ed Arte del Comune di Trieste), and Michela Messina (conservator of the Civic Museum Sartorio – Museo Civico Sartorio).
The exhibition of the winning projects is part of the Trieste Photo Days 2023 events and will be open from October 27 to November 26, 2023. The four winning authors will be honored at the URBAN Photo Awards Ceremony on Saturday, October 28, at the “Marco Sofianopulo” Auditorium of the Civic Museum of Modern Art Revoltella.
Winning projects:
Alain Schroeder – Lelo
“Lelo Burti” is a Georgian sport, which combines elements of wrestling and rugby and is played once a year on the Georgian Orthodox Easter Sunday in the small village of Shukhuti.
Andrea Bettancini – The failure of reason
The Montecatini colony in Cervia was designed in 1937 by a Jewish architect Eugenio Faludi a year before the promulgation of the Italian racial laws. The censorship imposed on him after the “Declaration of race” in 1938, erased the memory of the paternity of this magnificent example of Italian rationalist architecture.
Giovanni Sacco – Memento Mori
Memento mori, remember that you have to die, is a Latin saying that stresses the impermanence of all things, and reminds that all things, including us, must die.
Martina D’Agresta – Tempra
A feminine noun with a double meaning: a heat treatment of metals aimed at improving its properties strength and bending mechanics or a set of psychic and spiritual qualities of an individual with a marked connotation of solidity and vigor.
