ALMA BIBOLOTTI
PHOTOGRAPHY
Não basta abrir a janela
Para ver os campos e o rio.
Não é bastante não ser cego
Para ver as árvores e as flores.
FERNANDO PESSOA
"La nature crée toujours des connexions visuelles en suivant un rythme et faisant jaillir des formes temporaires : Alma Bibolotti les rassemble pour offrir la beauté comme l’absence dans cette suite de prise. Existe une patiente accumulation de ce qui par effets d’eau frôle, s’enfonce, caresse, griffe, et ne cesse de s’écrire, d’imposer une sûre et tâtonnante fragilité, une murmurante continuité provisoire. Par effet de surfaces, parfois abstractives, bouillonne une vie des profondeurs. Rien ne patauge tout devient écriture sur l’encre du lac. (...) Ses tiges parfois s’agitent et se hérissent dans une poétique qui dépasse celle de la nature. Les profondeurs de nos psychés peuvent trouver là des échos."
Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret, Lelittéraire
I was born in Bari in 1964. After graduating in Foreign languages, I moved to France where I lived and worked for 6 years, between Paris and Nice. My relationship with photography started in the eighties when I discovered Mimmo Jodice, Edward Weston, Mario Giacomelli, Lucien Clergue and many other masters of light whose works had a strong influence on her vision. Taking photos and printing them in my darkroom became the way to express my deepest emotions. Since then, photography is an inner journey, vital to me. When I switched from analogue to digital, I was quite seduced by the multiple possibilities of experimenting in post-processing, in my virtual darkroom. Today, beyond the technical aspects, I like challenging the rules to highlight forms and textures. Much of my work focuses on the language of nature: it is in the natural world and its less 'visible' aspects that I look for subjects to create something that resonates emotionally. I think that very simple elements can sometimes evoke parallel worlds, opening gateways to an unconscious and dreamlike dimension, so that the space explored outside can make 'visible' my inner gaze.
INTERNATIONAL AWARDS
2025
Prix de la Photographie Paris (PX3) | Gold FINE ART – DIGITALLY ENHANCED series The Lilies Pond
Budapest International Foto Awards | Silver FINE ART – LANDSCAPE series Metamorphosis
2024
Budapest International Foto Awards | Gold EDITORIAL – ENVIRONMENT series Dissolving beauty
Prix de la Photographie Paris (PX3) | Gold NATURE – WATER series Maredentro
Prix de la Photographie Paris (PX3) | Bronze NATURE – OTHER series Dissolving beauty
Tokyo International Foto Awards | Bronze EDITORIAL – ENVIRONMENT series Dissolving beauty
Tokyo International Foto Awards | Honourable Mention EDITORIAL – ENVIRONMENT series Xylella Ballad
2023
Tokyo International Foto Awards | Bronze EDITORIAL – ENVIRONMENT, series The Waste Land
Tokyo International Foto Awards | Honourable Mention FINE ART – LANDSCAPE, series Maredentro
ND Photography Awards | Honourable Mention WATERSCAPES, series Maredentro
Urban Photo Awards /Matrix4design | Finalist ‘Icons of Architecture’, SM/ART/CHITECTURE
Fine Art Photography Awards | Nominee SEASCAPE series Maredentro
2022
Garden Photographer of the Year (London Royal Kew Gardens) | Highly commended, Precious
Tokyo International Foto Awards | Bronze SCIENCE – ENVIRONMENT, series The Fragile Face
Budapest International Foto Awards | Honourable Mention FINE ART-LANDSCAPE, series Maredentro
ND Photography Awards | Honourable Mention WATERSCAPES, series Water Haiku
Urban Photo Awards | Finalist Spaces/New Buildings, single photo The Curve
2021
ND Photography Awards | Honourable Mention CONCEPTUAL, series Liquid entropy
Transversalidades - Fotografia sem Fronteiras | Honourable Mention, theme 'Natural heritage, landscapes and biodiversity', series Arborum sudaria
Wipplay, Mon environnement de travail (in association with Usimages) | Jury award winner, In her fabric store, La Valletta, Malta
Better Photography magazine, Urban Patterns | Honourable Mention, single photo Foster UAE Pavilion
2019
Garden Photographer of the Year (London Royal Kew Gardens) | Finalist, ABSTRACT VIEWS Lilies in a pond
2018
Wipplay, XXS | Jury third prize (experts Jean-Joseph Renucci and Alessandro Zuffi), Can you see me?, published in the French magazine Causette
EXHIBITIONS
2025 | Montecchio Fotografia 'La Luce scritta', Castello estense, Montecchio Emilia - series 'La Nature est un Temple'
2023 | Trieste Photo Festival, Trieste Airport, Trieste, Italy - single photo 'sm/art/chitecture'
2023 | Treviso Photographic Festival, Treviso, Italy - single photo 'Spring Land (Fontana on my mind)'
2023 | Visuali italiane, Roonee 247 fine arts Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, series 'Liquid Entropy - The floating world'
2023 | The Lilies Pond, virtual exhibition, Artdoc Photography Magazine
2023 | Through my Lens, virtual exhibition, Artdoc Photography Magazine
2023 | Conceptual photography, virtual exhibition, Artdoc Photography Magazine
2022 | Trieste Photo Festival, Trieste Airport, Trieste, Italy - single photo 'The Curve'
2022 | MilanoPhotoFestival, 'NEW BUILDINGS, Le nuove icone dell’architettura urbana', Showroom Turri, Milano, Italy - single photo 'The Curve'
2022 | Transversalidades - Fotografia sem Fronteiras, Galeria de Arte do Teatro Municipal, Guarda, Portugal - series 'Arborum sudaria'
2022 | Transversalidades - Fotografia sem Fronteiras 2021, Auditório Municipal, Vila do Conde, Portugal - series 'Arborum sudaria'
2021 | Trieste Photo Festival, Trieste Airport - single photo 'Passengers'
2021 | Festival Usimages, Beauvais (Diaphane, Picardie photographic pole) - single photo 'In her fabric store'