Fine Art nominee

This photo symbolizes the importance of the leap of faith, that jump into the new and the different that we often have to take. It generates a lot of uncertainty and fear, but it´s crucial for personal growth. I think that venturing into the unfamiliar, into the new, is the only way to get the things that we want, and this photo aims to capture that reflection visually.
I wanted to capture the precise moment of the olympic dive from a low perspective, creating a low light and blueish atmosphere, in which what stands out primarily is the monumentality of the diving platform's height and the character in the midst of the jump.
I made this Fine Art proyect at the Benito Juarez Olympic Pool, in Mexico City. I used digital medium format, and lighted the whole pool with cinematic lightning.

César Guardia Alemañi (Argentina, 1994) is a photographer and director of photography. He studied cinematography at Universidad de Cine in Buenos Aires and later on at La Femis in Paris. He has worked on projects in Argentina, Mexico, United States, Peru, Paraguay, France, and Belgium, spanning Fine Art photography, feature films, documentaries, commercials, and music videos.
His staged large-format photographs focus on human nature and its most internal processes: introspections, confrontations, and the complexities related to interpersonal relationships.
He has won the 2024 IPA Non Professional Fine Art Photographer of the Year Award with his series Towards Intimacy. Currently he is represented by GalleryLabs, with which he will exhibit at Pinta BAFoto Art Fair in Buenos Aires this october.