Fine Art nominee

Humanize by definition is to make compatible with the respect due to the human person and his rights.
Love is not easy but It's the only way to humanize the world.
In the Humanize project, Alberto Alicata and Federica Scoma, decide to give new life to the most famous kisses in the story of photography, that past of love in black and white handed down from photographers from the early 900 to present date, images that has become "iconic", emblematic and that has characterized certain historical moments.
The choice of manikins as subjects, with their specific features, comes from wanting to be able to give the observer the freedom to choose who the lovers in the images are.
Humanize addresses the issue of differences, the recognition of "diversity", the relationship between the personal and the social identity revealing a growing uncertainty in living the relationship between nature and culture (between body and identity), between sexual identity and gender identity. It opens up a new vision where there are no standards or percepts but only the need to be recognized for what we are.

Alberto, was born in Palermo in 1983, graduated at the Scuola Romana di Fotografia e Cinema di Roma​ (School of Photography and Cinema of Rome). Now lives between Sicily and Rome and works as a Fashion, Portraits and Fine Art photographer. His works has been published world wide in magazines such as Wired, theGuardian, Telegraph, Internazionale, CBS, Corriere della Sera, American Photo, Photo.fr, il Fotografo.
In 2015, the MAXXI – National Museum of XXI Century in Rome - chose him along with other 10 young Italians photographer in Italy for a Masterclass with internationally renowded photographer Mustafa Sabbagh. In 2016 won the Professional Staged Category at the Sony World Photography Awards.