FIRST PLACE WINNER - People: Travel (AMATEUR)
Locusts & Men
Photo © Michele Martinelli
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Oppression, interaction, collaboration.
In the life cycle of nature nothing is lost, but the coexistence of different species is sometimes difficult.
In Madagascar periodically returns the archaic antagonism between man and migratory locust, in a circle of life where the two species look for space and food for their survival.
Accomplice deforestation, cropland are objective of swarms of locusts flying covering billions skies and vegetation, destroying agricultural production, human labor, grazing cattle, with the risk of causing serious famine to the population.
Their survival instinct is the nourishment they need to live.
"By virtue of necessity," says a proverb, and the people of Madagascar to replenish the limited menu captures the same locusts employing hands and networks trapping enough for many meals discreetly nutrients.
The event is seen with concern, but also in playful harmony with nature on the one hand and takes away from the other offers.
Women and girls in the fields forward in the midst of whirling swarms of locusts, and expertly run and spread nets trying to grab prey, men follow them easily with heavy sacks on their shoulders, until the spectacular natural event does not turn at the end.
In 2015 I obtained a master in photojournalism and documentary photography at “Fondazione studio Marangoni” in Florence.
Sensitive to the communication through the artistic expression, I discovered my passion for the photography just few years ago.
Togheter with my innate curiosity as a traveler who I am, photography changed my life giving her a deep meaning.
Travelling and transmitting traditions and emotions by a picture means offering an emotional and cultural heritage for the posterity, fixing the memory of the humanity’s roots; as far as I’m concerned travelling is the most powerful way of knowledge.
I’m particularly keen on the anthropologic and environmental aspects and I really love the world and anything which is part of it. With my photographs I try to capture the sensations given by light which involves everything.
The human being and his traditions, all around the world even in the most remote corners of the planet, deeply fascinates me.
“I personally consider this world just like a great book full of stories which I’m just trying to attach some illustrations”.
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Oppression, interaction, collaboration.
In the life cycle of nature nothing is lost, but the coexistence of different species is sometimes difficult.
In Madagascar periodically returns the archaic antagonism between man and migratory locust, in a circle of life where the two species look for space and food for their survival.
Accomplice deforestation, cropland are objective of swarms of locusts flying covering billions skies and vegetation, destroying agricultural production, human labor, grazing cattle, with the risk of causing serious famine to the population.
Their survival instinct is the nourishment they need to live.
"By virtue of necessity," says a proverb, and the people of Madagascar to replenish the limited menu captures the same locusts employing hands and networks trapping enough for many meals discreetly nutrients.
The event is seen with concern, but also in playful harmony with nature on the one hand and takes away from the other offers.
Women and girls in the fields forward in the midst of whirling swarms of locusts, and expertly run and spread nets trying to grab prey, men follow them easily with heavy sacks on their shoulders, until the spectacular natural event does not turn at the end.
About author:
I was born in Pietrasanta (Lucca) on Aug. 29,1979 and I currently live in Lucca where I work as a restorer of cultural goods.In 2015 I obtained a master in photojournalism and documentary photography at “Fondazione studio Marangoni” in Florence.
Sensitive to the communication through the artistic expression, I discovered my passion for the photography just few years ago.
Togheter with my innate curiosity as a traveler who I am, photography changed my life giving her a deep meaning.
Travelling and transmitting traditions and emotions by a picture means offering an emotional and cultural heritage for the posterity, fixing the memory of the humanity’s roots; as far as I’m concerned travelling is the most powerful way of knowledge.
I’m particularly keen on the anthropologic and environmental aspects and I really love the world and anything which is part of it. With my photographs I try to capture the sensations given by light which involves everything.
The human being and his traditions, all around the world even in the most remote corners of the planet, deeply fascinates me.
“I personally consider this world just like a great book full of stories which I’m just trying to attach some illustrations”.
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