Conceptual nominee

iPhonepathy: a degenerative pathology of human cognitive system induced by the intensive and extended use of one’s smartphone. Due to its epidemically contagious character, this disease affects most individuals, regardless of age and gender, bringing them to see their smartphones as a vital necessity at the basis of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. The compulsive use of those devices is accompanied by an irrepressible need to improve self-esteem through obsessive research of approval on the social networks. Collateral effects include other two severe conditions, Dialoguepathy (inability to verbally communicate with others) and Liberlegopathy (inability to read paper documents). On the long run, iPhonepathy can totally subjugate individuals into complete isolation.

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.