Conceptual nominee

I’m shocked to see how things are thrown away, how in Italy enthusiasm, passion and energy of youngest generations are wasted. What I show here are digitally manipulated images of paradoxical ordinary life of children around bins and rubbish. As children are our future, and insane consumption is our present, my images are visual metaphors of a country that disposes too nonchalantly of its past, that has lost any sense of development, that doesn’t offer to youngest generations any chance of personal or social fulfilment: a country that does not invest in education, culture and in research throws away its own future. My work aims at stimulating a debate over what’s intrinsically wrong in such a social organization, and at promoting a new way of thinking to build a better future for our children.

Andrea Taschin was born in Venice in 1971 and lives in Florence from many years. He graduated in Physics in Florence in 1999 and he obtained the PhD in Physics in 2003 in Florence. He works as researcher at Laboratory European for Non-linear Spectroscopy (LENS) of the University of Florence. Taschin has a great passion for photography since many years, and is also an enthusiast and expert in color science and digital color management. He is a photographer who has acquired advanced knowledge of photography and postproduction by consulting several books, websites and photography forums and attending numerous workshops held by professional photographers. Recently, Taschin became interested to the photography projects as a mean to tell through a sequence of images a story, as a mean to express profound messages and social commentary. His photography is creative. He is a member of Photoalchimie of Calenzano (FI), member of RIfrediImmagine of Florence and reviewer at Slow Watching Photo-Art Movement group.
His camera equipment includes a Pentax K5 and the following lenses: Pentax SMC Pentax-F 4-5.6 / 70-210mm, Tamron SP AF17-50mm F / 2.8 Di-II LD Aspherical (IF) XR, Zeiss 85mm f / 2.8 Sonnar and Zeiss Planar 50 / 1.7.