People: Travel (AMATEUR) - HONORABLE MENTION
The touristic invasion
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In Georgia today is beginning to undergo a "gentifrication" process due to the massive arrival of tourism in certain remote areas. The area of the Kazhbegi is one of these: the natural places for most of the year are filled with tourists who crowd ancient monasteries and natural areas. With these photographs I have tried to make a portrait of this mass phenomenon with a sometimes grotesque face. To represent this, I chose color photography. This photos is part of the long term project "The touristic invasion" about the effect of massive tourism on some environement
Marco Sadori(1979) is a photographer who was born
in Italy and lived in Italy and abroad. He graduated in art history at the University of Bologna. He started to take photography since the 1992 with an old camera Olympus Om-1 that his father gave him.
He studied photography in Bologna with Fulvio Bugani and attended workshops by Davide Monteleone and Ernesto Bazan; readings portfolio with Joan Liftin and Beth Taubner.
He specialises in long-term projects that links to multiple topics like identity, borders, spirituality, tradition.
From 2010 he traveled extensively in Asia for a long-term project on "identity in Asia and his connections with the West culture". For this long term project he has visited more than 15 country in the Asia area.
He is currently deepening the Caucasus area for a long-term project on the identity of the Caucasus and the influences in the territory between East and West.
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In Georgia today is beginning to undergo a "gentifrication" process due to the massive arrival of tourism in certain remote areas. The area of the Kazhbegi is one of these: the natural places for most of the year are filled with tourists who crowd ancient monasteries and natural areas. With these photographs I have tried to make a portrait of this mass phenomenon with a sometimes grotesque face. To represent this, I chose color photography. This photos is part of the long term project "The touristic invasion" about the effect of massive tourism on some environement
About author:
Marco Sadori(1979) is a photographer who was born
in Italy and lived in Italy and abroad. He graduated in art history at the University of Bologna. He started to take photography since the 1992 with an old camera Olympus Om-1 that his father gave him.
He studied photography in Bologna with Fulvio Bugani and attended workshops by Davide Monteleone and Ernesto Bazan; readings portfolio with Joan Liftin and Beth Taubner.
He specialises in long-term projects that links to multiple topics like identity, borders, spirituality, tradition.
From 2010 he traveled extensively in Asia for a long-term project on "identity in Asia and his connections with the West culture". For this long term project he has visited more than 15 country in the Asia area.
He is currently deepening the Caucasus area for a long-term project on the identity of the Caucasus and the influences in the territory between East and West.
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