Landscape nominee

We live in a delicate moment where our relationship with the environment is compromise between a series of nostalgic memories and the tragic fate of the contemporary truth. My photographic research, through landscapes, wants to deepen this space-time relationship between human and earth, inseparable from the emotional awareness of the spirit.
This body of work is a selection of photographs that represents an ongoing topographic study of the young mountains chain territory of the Appennino Emiliano. Through an in-depth research of those childhood places lived in the past but today remained as distant memories, these landscapes have become symbol of an introspective meditation, a bouncing feelings in between past and present , thought romantic and nostalgic emotions. Memories that spark a deep reflection of the SELF, clarifying and raising awareness of our identity in the present in which we live.

Maurizio Bavutti is a full-time Italian photographer based in Bologna, Italy. Maurizio’s interest in photography began during his film studies in Spain. Since then he has worked with analogue photography, in color and black and white, through portraits and landscapes, developing a romantic and nostalgic vision of the contemporary world. After finishing his studies in media, which he attended between Italy, Spain and England, he moved to London in 2006 where he took a postgraduate course in photography at the University of the Arts UAL. Following five years of training as a photo assistant for several artists Maurizio begins his career. In 2013 he moved from London to New York City where he lived and worked for a few years, growing a strong interest in to “straight photography” movement , originally founded by the pioneers of the early 20th century American photography like Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand and Ansel Adams. Recently Maurizio returns to Italy to deepen his photographic studies and research on his home land. His works have been exhibited at Triennale Milano, Armani Silos Art Foundation, Paratissima Torino and ArtCity Bologna.