Winner Silver TIFA

This is what I call a sparkling start of 2024: WINNER TIFA SILVER PRIZE!
The Portrait of My Love Nita Curled Up, a photogravure printed on washi paper with 24k Gold Flakes, has been awarded with Silver at the prestigious Tokyo International Foto Awards in the Category Fine Art/Nude!
Thank you jury of the TIFA 2023.

Please have a lookat the Winners Gallery: https://www.tokyofotoawards.jp/winners/tokyo/2023/
This Silver award is a true ode to my Love Nita, who passed away a bit more than a year ago now.
Sail on my Silver Girl!
The image Portrait of My Love Nita Curled Up is part of the series Book of Light, which was developed during a Swatch Art Peace Hotel Residency.

This portrait of Nita was taken at the former Convitto Palmieri in Lecce for the museum project ‘The Living Archives’ ❤️
Recently this same image had already been awarded twice at the 20th IPA: Winner IPA 2nd Prize Analogue/Fine Art and Winner IPA 3rd Prize Fine Art/Nude.

TIFA WINNER HONORABLE MENTION

… and there is more sparkling news: TIFA Winner of an Honorable Mention!
The image Double Exposure of Nita My Love, a hand printed gelatin silver print on baryta paper, has been awarded with an Honorable Mention at the prestigious Tokyo International Foto Awards in the Category Fine Art/Abstract.
Thank you jury of the TIFA 2023.
Nita My Love’ is part of the series ‘Traces into the Unknown’ in which I investigate the traces of love left behind after losing the love of you life. As memories are slowly changing and or fading, I started digging in the archives of images trying to understand and visualize how feelings of love can still be so incredible strong, overwhelming and vivid, even without the physical presence of Nita.
Trying to find new balance and coping with the loss, I know that working in the darkroom will help to clear my mind and bring back sparks of beauty in my life.

This portrait of Nita was also taken at the former Convitto Palmieri in Lecce for the museum project ‘The Living Archives’ ❤️

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