Night nominee

The key theme of my poetics is abstraction. I tried to analyze this topic from different points of view. A group of images proposes the created abstraction (obtained through different techniques, such as lightpainting, physiogram, plays of light, multiple exposures...), while another group of images, as in this case, the abstraction is more focused on the concept behind the actual image. For this purpose I created astrophotography images. When we see astronomical images we are faced with abstractions. In these cases, in fact, we believe in the existence of something that we cannot actually see with our eyes.
Until 1916 we didn't even know what a black hole was and for a century later, until 2019, we were unable to obtain a photographic image of it. Until the NASA "Event Horizon Telescope" captured an image of the black hole, its existence could not be concretely declared with visual proof, even if science managed to demonstrate the authenticity of the theory.

Carlotta Roda was born in 1999 in Erba, in the province of Como. After graduating from the linguistic high school, she decides to fol-low her true passion: photography. She began to take an interest in this world for thirteen years, and then chose a few years later to turn her passion into a job. She is currently atten-ding the third year at the IED in Milan and, specifically, the photography course of the Visual Arts department.During these three years you have devoted a lot to research and have taken a particular interest in night photography. Through her photographs, she wants to show people the charm of night hours, especially the urban aspect.