Fine Art nominee

Estado de Alarma.
On 21 June 2020, after ninety-nine days and six extensions, what was formally concluded
the "State of alarm" to combat the Covid 19 epidemic has been defined in Spain.
The photos I present are a selection of my family's photographic diary made in Bar-
cellona during the quarantine.
Since the first day of lockdown I have been thinking about making a book. The photographic process is
been marked by a daily editing, a writing that has the qualities of the document, but
which ranges from fictional stories to children's science fiction. Rodari, Munari, a kid's encyclopedia, Luigi Ghirri, knocked on my door during those days.
I hold dear, an echo of my childhood as a child raised in Modena in the seventies
, which I try to pass on to my children and which has found a space in my photographic journey.

Ciro Frank Schiappa was born in 1971 in Dublin, Ireland. He studied photography at Fondazione Studio Marangoni in Firenze, Italy. His photographs have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the 1997 European Young Artist Biennial in Torino, the international photography festival of Arles, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Galleria Civica in Modena, his hometown.
Schiappa's twin photographic interests in portraiture and architecture have continued to develop in his subsequent series beginning with his Circostanze Familiari and continuing on to include Leicamix and Maremmana in which he focuses on how human nature relates to the environment.
In 2016 he published New York Serenade with Skira Publisher a book about history of rock in New York City.

Schiappa lives and works between Barcelona and Milano