Open Theme nominee

The tourist. We move without awareness, we are no longer travelers but passive users of the places and landscapes that we visit.

Paolo Iommelli lives between Turin and Aversa, where he was born in 1965. In the 1980s he began his profession as a professional photographer with great regard for experimentation and expressive possibilities of photographic language. After graduating, she attends the lessons of photographer Mimmo Jodice at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples. He then graduated at the Federico II University (Naples) in Philosophy of Language with a thesis on "Myths and Symbols", and specializes in Visual Anthropology with a Master in Social Photography. The "Portraits Without Faces" portfolio published in L'OEIL DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE Paris Magazine. The portfolio "Vestiges. Going for the Mediterranean" published on the magazine “GENTE DI FOTOGRAFIA”. Various publications on the VOGUE ITALIA magazine and on NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ITALIA. Honorable Mention MIFA 2016 Moscow Awards Editorial category; Honorable Mention ND Awards 2016 Editorial category; Honorable Mention TIFA 2016 Fine Art; 3 classified PX3 2017 Prix de la Photographie Paris “Rural Landscape, le Langhe”; Honorable Mention PX3 2017 Prix de la Photographie Paris “Rural Landscape, le Langhe”; 2 classified MIFA 2017 Moscow Awards ”Rural Landscape, le Langhe”; 3 Honorable Mention IPA 2017 category Fine Art Landscapes “Alpi”,category Fine Art Landscapes e Nature Landscapes “Rural Landscape,le Langhe".