Nudes nominee

“Playing with the fabric of life” is a black-and-white study of the nude as a shifting presence—an experiment in how a body can be fully there while refusing to be fixed. Motion blur and long exposure transform the figure into duration: fast, slow, reflective, in action.

The body moves between revelation and refuge—sometimes forward, sometimes hidden. A translucent veil acts as a threshold rather than a cover: pulled, folded, resisting, surrendering. It interrupts the gaze and reshapes the subject into a bundle of light, breath, and gesture.

Details dissolve; the essential stays. Life is felt through its own fabric.

Rome-based Italian photographer, data scientist and humanitarian worker at the UN, Michela D’Onofrio has pursued photography as a passion for the past 15 years. She has lived across Europe (Italy/Switzerland/Finland/Netherlands), speaks four languages, and has worked in different sectors and in multicultural environments. She finds inspiration from a deep connection to places, to local peoples and traditions, with a particular fascination of the past.
Self-taught for many years and formally trained since 2020, her work explores presence in absence, and the emotions arising from the intersection of memory, beauty and loss. She is passionate about diving deep into overlooked narratives, seeking them in remote landscapes, ancient histories and forgotten cultural sites and villages - or simply beneath the surface of the obvious. She shapes her visual stories with empathy, poetic sensibility and respect for human dignity.
Her work has been shown in group exhibitions in Europe (B&W Festival Athens, GARD Rome, Fotonostrum Barcelona, PH21 Budapest, private exhibition in Geneva), featured in photography publications (incl. a single-image publication in the National Geographic Italy, 2026/01), and included in a photobook. Recent projects span North Africa and Italy, focusing on fragile heritage and lived spaces.