URBAN 2023: Francesco Aglieri Rinella’s “West Safari” project wins the exhibition-prize at the Poreč Museum (Croatia)
URBAN Photo Awards 2023 exhibition-prize will be opened in Poreč (Croatia), at the Poreč Museum (Zavičajni Muzej Poreštine).
Elena Uljančić, director of the Museum and juror of the competition, has selected the project for this year’s exhibition: West Safari, by italian photographer Francesco Aglieri Rinella. Here follows the directors’ motivation: “The choice of this portfolio is due to the quality of the idea and presentation. The photographs express a right concept full of atmosphere however with a personal note in the photographic eye. An atmosphere similar to that in the paintings of artist Edward Hopper emerges from the photos.”
In West Safari, Aglieri Rinella documents the human presence in the American Decadence of modern age. About the author:
“My photography is a slow-down process to understand lights and situations. The hidden reality of light shows and reflects what is hidden in our lives and which can only be accepted with a great open mind. My photographs are a study of reality as the freezing of an unrepeatable instant including emotional reflections and mental expansions. Influenced by the “New Topographics” movement, my research is constantly aimed to document the “Man-Altered Landscape” that evolves through time, marking the cultural and historical point of view of a simple but effective panorama.”
The exhibition will be part of the calendar of the Photo Days Tour 2023, a setting of events that take place outside the city during the Trieste Photo Days festival.
Winners of past years editions
2022
- The Last Confession – Anthony Sala (France)
- Centenarians – Piero Colle (Italy)
2021
- Gotham Memories – Jeff Rothstein (USA)
2019
- Urban Vision – Giovanni Paolini (Italy)
- La Boda – Mariagrazia Beruffi (Italy)
- Railway Station – Roberto Di Patrizi (Italy)
2018
- Gentle Appearances In Tokyo Metropolis – Mitja Kobal (Slovenia)
- Stray Dog – Sevil Alkan (Turkey)
- Urban Faces and Fragments – Paolo Maggi (Italy)
2017
- Nothing will stop us – Silvia Andrade (Mexico)
- Nonna Angela (“Grandma Angela”) – Christian Milotic (Italy)
- A Transporting Experience: Senegal’s Colorful Public Buses Hit The Road – Ricci Shryock (USA)
2016
- Kushti – Alain Schroeder (Belgium)
- Cidade da Garoa – Luca Meola (Italy)
- Passage – Alphan Yilmazmaden (Turkey)
