Conceptual nominee

- rinnegato -

Disown

/dis•own/

Transitive verb

1. To claim, saying falsely, to have never knew anyone, rejecting the relationship of devotion or affection which unites us to him; disown.

- rinnegato - (Italian for - disown -) is an autobiographical project about the complicated relationship, now non-existent, between father and daughter. An inconstant father who tried to be present, the teachings and events that influenced a child, and still have an impact on her daily life, making tricky relationships and choices; all represented by image that evoke metaphorically a part of the history.

His lack of feeling took me over the years to have self-esteem issues, and guilt for all that I do or do not do; there has never been an encouragement on his part, but just insults with which he tried to get me to follow a road that was not what I imagined.

Martina Zanin, born in San Daniele del Friuli in 1994, currently lives in Rome. Even as a child she developed a passion for photography and after graduating she decided to enroll at ISFCI (Institute of Photography and Integrated Communication), where she graduated with honors in June 2016. Some people call her creative, visionary, a cryptic person and at the same time loves to dare, trying to be more and more innovative project after project. She gets involved from all that surrounds her trying to merge it with her thoughts. She is fascinated by psychology, and the philosophy of "Being and Time" (being and time); she likes to analyze herself and the others, trying to understand what is the consequence of every action and reaction going to dig into memory. She received two special mentions from Portfolio Italia for the project "- rinnegato -," she won the IG Contest of Slideluck Naples and she is the winner of the Department of the City culture of Foiano della Chiana with "- rinnegato -“ and 1st place winner and discovery of the year 2016 of IPOTY’s open theme category.