Seascape nominee

The Sky of Water is an investigation on underwater world carried out between 1998 and 2012 in different Seas (Mediterranean, Red Sea, Indian Ocean, Caribbean Sea). The series aims to explorate the fishs vision taking photos from bottom to up, using the water surface as a mirror. Creating, so, a new exciting perspective in which the sea objects and inhabitants (rocks, seaweed, jellyfish,..) are reflected into the sky.
The images reproduce the exact shot, without cuts and manipulations. CAMERA: Nikonos-V LENS:Nikon 35 mm f/2.5 FILM: Kodak Ektachrome 64 Professional

Paolo Cristiani
Paolo Cristiani (Milano, 1956), engineer, is the General Manager of a bio-medical research consortium, combining this activity with those of photographer, painter and sculptor.
As a photographer he started his professional activity, at the beginning of the '80s, with a photographic book on Fidenza cathedral (Parma) and working for magazines and national newspapers (Abitare, Il Corriere della Sera Illustrato, Touristic magazines).
Since the ‘90s, the photographic work affects landscapes research (SEA COSTS, LANDSCAPES OF SILENCE, SEA OF LOMBARDY), nature (LEAVES) and social (MEN & CITIES)..
Single Port-folio have been the subject of photographic books and exhibitions in Italy and abroad (Istanbul, Izmir, Ljubljana, Strasbourg, Tunis, Buenos Aires).