Simone Tramonte
White Gold (Series)
DESCRIPTION
The mine Racalmuto in Sicily, it’s one more rich deposits of salt in Europe: a huge lens of rock salt contained in the heart of a mountain.
Here it continues to resist the mining culture of Sicily through which a territory marked by a very high unemployment rate are still working and support dozens of families of miners.
Going down in the mine, leaving behind the light, to enter into the bowels of the earth, where the work of man has created miles of tunnels, which penetrate the mountain for hundreds of meters below the surface. The mine is like a womb, it is the 'beginning', it’s here that there was the sea millions of years ago, when there was still no trace of man. It's a lunar landscape, where the lights of machinery, completely covered by a white powder, seem eyes of unknown creatures. It is thanks to the courage, passion and professionalism of these men that at every moment the rebirth of a particle of the universe is accomplished.
AUTHOR
Simone Tramonte was born in Rome in 1976 and after graduating in Economics he decided to devote his attention to photography. He is a freelance photographer that works and is mainly based in Italy.
He began photographic studies with particular attention to social and anthropological issues.
Involved in documentary photography since the 2007, his work is focused to documenting contemporary issues and the profound cultural changes.
His projects have been published in international magazines such as Internazionale, NationalGeographic, Geo, Indipendent, The Guardian, The Telegraph, Southeast Asia Globe, CameraRaw, TheTripMagazine, Sguardi.
This works has been exhibited at Fotoleggendo in Rome, at the Chiostro del Bramante in Rome, at the ArtBasel of Basel, at the Kolga Tbilisi Festival of Georgia.
He has been awarded some international prizes:
1st prize "Geo Magazine" - 2013
1st prize "UBS Art Collection" – 2011
2nd prize "Science-Environment” category – MIFA - 2016
2nd prize "Editorial-Environmental” category – IPOTY – 2016
2nd prize "People-Culture” category – MIFA - 2015
2nd prize "Press-Environmental” category – PX3 – 2015
3rd prize – FIIPA (FIOF Awards) – 2016
Remarkable Award – Siena International Photo Awards – 2015
Shortlisted – KOLGA TBILISI PHOTO AWARDS – 2016
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