Seascape nominee

At the sea..,Summer,August,no Italian can give up;All in a row,in an infernal traffic, but all at sea...Forget the hated daily life and let yourself go to pure fun, in the sun,to carefree, enjoy the pure crystal water and the light that dazzles you. Talking about this and that with strangers, idling ...But everything, maybe, is just a beatiful illusion,which in the end,brings us back to the solitude of the human condition,to a horizon,almost invisible and impassable,as in these images,where on closer inspection, hundreds of people on the beach,seem at last to be absorbed only in their own.

Pietro Di Giambattista born in Pannarano (BN) in 1956 and he lives and works in Rome. After having studied technical studies he started a full-time classical guitar course and in 1991 he became a performer. He decided to give up the study of the guitar and dedicated himself to photography, devoting his attention mainly to landscapes and portraits. In 1992 he won the 1st prize in a national photography competition at Ercolano (Napoli). In 1997 he enrolled at a Photography Workshop in Toscana held by the famous English landscape photographer Eddie Ephraums. From that time onwards he started taking part into workshops that will determine his professional growth. He also had the chance to meet Paolo Pellegrin and Antonin Kratochvil. In the year 2000 he met Francesco Zizzola in Massa Marittima at the Toscana Fotofestival and at the Polaroid workshop he met Maurizio Galimberti. He attended a workshop with Michael Ackerman and later with Yury Kozyrev in Rome. He also enrolled in some courses at thePermanent School of Photography "Graffiti" in Rome, directed by Gianni Pinnizzotto and also attended the start-up to the profession of photojournalism with Rolando Fava . In 2002 he sent a selection of portraits that are