Nature nominee

Macro photographic series that aims to explore the potential of these small springs to cling to other plants to serve as support. In plant morphology these extensions of climbing plants are called “tendrils” which are important tools that are used by plant, in this case the passion fruit tree, to fix in other branches and leaves, rolling these structures and serving as support.

The abstract forms in the natural world always fascinated me and through these photos I try to focus attention on a minimal part of the nature of the plants that could normally go unnoticed and invite the viewer to get lost in the personal interpretation of these various helical formations. The series "Botanic Loop" was designed in black and white because it only explores the shape and texture of these spiral-shaped filiform structures which may at first appear to be man-made.

Fine Art photographer based in São Paulo/Brazil, Bruno Militelli is a contemporary visual artist who uses macro photography to present a unique portfolio focused on the processes, elements and experiments that permeate his creations.

Between abstraction and figuration, Bruno Militelli captures nature in its finest details. With the macro photography as a stepping stone, the artist overcomes the limits of vision and enters the minutiae of each of the photographed objects. Precision and focus are guides to the process, the poetics of the work develops, with near laboratory techniques, from the uncovering of the particularities of nature that fail to be seen or even go easily unnoticed.

Compositions made from the manipulation of objects, lights and color enable sensible gaze and incite curiosity, Bruno portrays nature as abstract manifestation, transcending the materiality of the elements which it is composed of.