SECOND PLACE WINNER - Architecture: Cityscapes (PROFESSIONAL)
Inside the landscape
Photo © Paolo Iommelli
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The unrepeatable architecture of the Sassi of Matera tells the ability of man to adapt perfectly to the environment and the natural environment, using with simple features such as the constant temperature of the excavated environments, the same calcarenite of the rocky counterpart for the construction of houses outside land and use of slopes for water control and meteoric phenomena. The Sassi of Matera, developed around the Civita, constitute an entire city excavated in the calcarenitic rock, called locally "tufo", an articulated housing system abutting along the slopes of a deep valley with singular and striking natural features: the Gravina. Built, elegant and articulated structures alternate with underground mazes and meanders of cavernous, creating a landscaped unicum of great effect.
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The unrepeatable architecture of the Sassi of Matera tells the ability of man to adapt perfectly to the environment and the natural environment, using with simple features such as the constant temperature of the excavated environments, the same calcarenite of the rocky counterpart for the construction of houses outside land and use of slopes for water control and meteoric phenomena. The Sassi of Matera, developed around the Civita, constitute an entire city excavated in the calcarenitic rock, called locally "tufo", an articulated housing system abutting along the slopes of a deep valley with singular and striking natural features: the Gravina. Built, elegant and articulated structures alternate with underground mazes and meanders of cavernous, creating a landscaped unicum of great effect.
About author:
Paolo Iommelli lives between Turin and Aversa, where he was born in 1965. In the 1980s he began his profession as a professional photographer with great regard for experimentation and expressive possibilities of photographic language. After graduating, she attends the lessons of photographer Mimmo Jodice at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples. He then graduated at the Federico II University (Naples) in Philosophy of Language with a thesis on "Myths and Symbols", and specializes in Visual Anthropology with a Master in Social Photography. The "Portraits Without Faces" portfolio published in L'OEIL DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE Paris Magazine. The "Vestiges. Going for the Mediterranean" portfolio published on the magazine “GENTE DI FOTOGRAFIA N.65”. The "The Loneliness of Globalized Man" portfolio published on the EDGE of HUMANITY MAGAZINE magazine. Various publications on the VOGUE ITALIA magazine and on NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ITALIA. Honorable Mention MIFA 2016 Moscow Awards Editorial category; Honorable Mention ND Awards 2016 Editorial category; Honorable Mention TIFA 2016 Tokyo Awards category Fine Art "Alpi"; Monochrome Exhibition at Blank Wall Gallery; Fine Art Exhibition at Blank Wall Gallery; 35 AWARDS 2016 "Top 70 Italy photographers" "The Best Photographers in the City of Aversa 2016 year"; 3 classified PX3 2017 Prix de la Photographie Paris category Fine Art Landscape "Rural Landscape, le Langhe"; Honorable Mention PX3 2017 Prix de la Photographie Paris Fine Art Landscapes "Rural Landscape, le Langhe"; 2 classified MIFA 2017 Moscow Awards category Nature Landscapes "Rural Landscape, le Langhe"; The Daily Life portfolio is present on the Zenith Photo Awards 2017 channels; Honorable Mention Int’l photography awards IPA 2017 category Fine Art Landscapes “Alpi”; Honorable Mention Int’l photography awards IPA 2017 category Fine Art Landscapes “Rural Landscape,le langhe”; Honorable Mention Int’l photography awards IPA 2017 category Nature Landscapes “Rural Landscape, le langhe”.BACK TO GALLERY
