Nature: Wildlife (PROFESSIONAL) - HONORABLE MENTION
Anatomy of A Museum

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Who does not remember visiting, as a child, a Natural History Museum?
Before TV shows, tablets and smart phones, the Natural History Museum was the place to discover and learn about all the fauna and flora of the Planet. Entering the Natural History Museum was like crossing a magic portal and traveling to remote and unknown places. A journey in space and time made of dinosaur’s skeletons, strange fish and fossils, bizarre plants and animals of all kind. Visiting the Museum was the way to achieve a knowledge regarding natural history and particularly to feed our imagination about our Planet and its transformation.
In order to renovate the space, the exhibition rooms were dismissed and all the animals and objects belonging to the collection were wrapped up to be protected and stored in a new space.
During this transitions phase the equilibrium and the magic of the Museum changed: the animals and the objects gained a new and bizarre life. Displaced from their defined position and out from the staged environment created for the display, they became strange objects, weird creatures inhabiting the space abandoned by the guards of the buildings.
Exhibitions
GuatePhoto, Collective Exhibition, Guatemala (2015)
Kolga Tbilisi Photo Festival, Tbilisi, Georgia (2015)
Estação Imagem, Cordoaria Nacional, Lisbon, Portugal (2014)
Estação Imagem, CPF, Porto, Portugal (2014)
Estação Imagem, Cordoaria Nacional, Lisbon, Portugal (2012)
Estação Imagem, CPF, Porto, Portugal (2012)
Awards
Ideas Tap - Magnum Photos Photographer Funds - Longlist (2015)
IPA 2015 International Photography Award - Honorable Mention (2015)
ND Awards - 1st prize Editorial Sport (2015)
ND Awards - 3rd prize Editorial Photo Essay (2015)
MIFA - 3rd prize Sport (2015)
MIFA - 2nd prize Nature Pet (2015)
Fotovisura Grant For Outstanding Multimedia Project - Honorable Mention (2015)
Royal Photographic Society Print Exhibition - Finalist (2015)
Photon Valencia - Finalist / Valencia, Spain (2015)
Kolga Tbilisi Photo Award - Finalist / Tblisi, Georgia (2015)
Estação Imagem - 2nd prize in the "Contemporary Issues" category / Mora, Portugal (2014)
Berlin Month of Photography Portfolio Review - Finalist / Berlin, Germany (2014)
Photon Valencia - Finalist / Valencia, Spain (2014)
Monochrome Awards - Professional Photojournalism Category - Honorable Mention (2014)
Photocraty Fund - Finalist (2014)
International Revela Award - Finalist / Madrid, Spain (2014)
Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation for Documentary Photography Grant - Finalist (2014)
Estação Imagem - 1st prize in the "Environment" category / Mora, Portugal (2012)
AddRetouch Documentary Photography - Finalist / Madrid, Spain (2013)
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Who does not remember visiting, as a child, a Natural History Museum?
Before TV shows, tablets and smart phones, the Natural History Museum was the place to discover and learn about all the fauna and flora of the Planet. Entering the Natural History Museum was like crossing a magic portal and traveling to remote and unknown places. A journey in space and time made of dinosaur’s skeletons, strange fish and fossils, bizarre plants and animals of all kind. Visiting the Museum was the way to achieve a knowledge regarding natural history and particularly to feed our imagination about our Planet and its transformation.
In order to renovate the space, the exhibition rooms were dismissed and all the animals and objects belonging to the collection were wrapped up to be protected and stored in a new space.
During this transitions phase the equilibrium and the magic of the Museum changed: the animals and the objects gained a new and bizarre life. Displaced from their defined position and out from the staged environment created for the display, they became strange objects, weird creatures inhabiting the space abandoned by the guards of the buildings.
About author:
Tommaso Rada is an Italian photographer currently living in the north of Portugal, in Braga. His works has been published in several magazines and newspapers such as Financial Time, Der Spiegel, Monocle, Popoli, Popoli e Missioni, Private online edition, Expresso, Helsingin Sanomat, Courrier International, Le Pelerin, Washington Post and Forbes Brazil. He collaborated with Unicef Mozambique, Comunità di Sant’Egidio and Habitat for Humanity Portugal.Exhibitions
GuatePhoto, Collective Exhibition, Guatemala (2015)
Kolga Tbilisi Photo Festival, Tbilisi, Georgia (2015)
Estação Imagem, Cordoaria Nacional, Lisbon, Portugal (2014)
Estação Imagem, CPF, Porto, Portugal (2014)
Estação Imagem, Cordoaria Nacional, Lisbon, Portugal (2012)
Estação Imagem, CPF, Porto, Portugal (2012)
Awards
Ideas Tap - Magnum Photos Photographer Funds - Longlist (2015)
IPA 2015 International Photography Award - Honorable Mention (2015)
ND Awards - 1st prize Editorial Sport (2015)
ND Awards - 3rd prize Editorial Photo Essay (2015)
MIFA - 3rd prize Sport (2015)
MIFA - 2nd prize Nature Pet (2015)
Fotovisura Grant For Outstanding Multimedia Project - Honorable Mention (2015)
Royal Photographic Society Print Exhibition - Finalist (2015)
Photon Valencia - Finalist / Valencia, Spain (2015)
Kolga Tbilisi Photo Award - Finalist / Tblisi, Georgia (2015)
Estação Imagem - 2nd prize in the "Contemporary Issues" category / Mora, Portugal (2014)
Berlin Month of Photography Portfolio Review - Finalist / Berlin, Germany (2014)
Photon Valencia - Finalist / Valencia, Spain (2014)
Monochrome Awards - Professional Photojournalism Category - Honorable Mention (2014)
Photocraty Fund - Finalist (2014)
International Revela Award - Finalist / Madrid, Spain (2014)
Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation for Documentary Photography Grant - Finalist (2014)
Estação Imagem - 1st prize in the "Environment" category / Mora, Portugal (2012)
AddRetouch Documentary Photography - Finalist / Madrid, Spain (2013)
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