ALMA BIBOLOTTI
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 am a self-taught photographer. I was born in Bari where I graduated in Foreign languages and literature. I moved to France where I lived and worked for six years, between Paris and Nice.
Photography plays a main role in my life: everything started many years ago when I discovered the works of Man Ray, Lucien Clergue, Mimmo Jodice, Minor White, Imogen Cunningham and many other masters of the magic of light.
Since then, taking pictures is an inner journey, my own way to deal with emotions. The outer space gives voice to my 'inner gaze' so that when I start shooting, I'm engaged with self-expression.
Much of my work focuses on the language of nature and my relationship with the landscape and the natural world. I am inspired by encounters and it is my instinct that leads me to choose my subjects and helps me to tell a story. In all my images, I aim to render what I feel while shooting, rather than what I witness; I don’t look for beauty but shadows and lights are a means to shape my own reality.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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'
2023 | Through my Lens, virtual exhibition, Artdoc Photography Magazine - series 'Maredentro'
2023 | Conceptual photography, virtual exhibition, Artdoc Photography Magazine - series 'The Lilies Pond'
2022 | Trieste Photo Festival, Trieste Airport, Trieste, Italy - single photo 'The Curve'
2022 | MilanoPhotoFestival, Showroom Turri, Milano 'New Buildings, le nuove icone dell’architettura urbana"
Urban/Matrix4design, - single photo 'The Curve'
2022 | Galeria de Arte do Teatro Municipal, Guarda, Portugal - series 'Arborum sudaria'
2022 | Auditório Municipal, Vila do Conde, Portugal - series 'Arborum sudaria'
2021 | Trieste Photo Festival, Trieste Airport - single photo 'Passengers'
2021 | Florence contemporary Gallery, LIMITLESS Virtual Exhibition - series 'Xylella Ballad'
2021 | Festival Usimages - Beauvais - single photo 'In her fabric store'
INTERNATIONAL AWARDS
2023 Tokyo International Foto Awards | Bronze EDITORIAL – ENVIRONMENT, series ‘The Waste Land’
2023 Tokyo International Foto Awards | Honourable Mention FINE ART – LANDSCAPE, series ‘Maredentro’
2023 ND Photography Awards | Honourable Mention WATERSCAPES, series ‘Maredentro'
2023 Urban Photo Awards /Matrix4design | Finalist ‘Icons of Architecture’, single photo 'SM/ART/CHITECTURE'
2023 Fine Art Photography Awards | Nominee SEASCAPE, series ‘Maredentro’
2022 Garden Photographer of the Year (London Royal Kew Gardens) | Highly commended, single photo ‘Precious’
2022 Tokyo International Foto Awards | Bronze category SCIENCE – ENVIRONMENT, series ‘The Fragile Face’
2022 Budapest International Foto Awards | Honourable Mention category FINE ART-LANDSCAPE, series ‘Maredentro’
2022 ND Photography Awards | Honourable Mention category WATERSCAPES, series 'Water Haiku'
2022 Urban Photo Awards | Finalist category Spaces/New Buildings, single photo 'The Curve'
2021 Transversalidades - Fotografia sem Fronteiras | Honourable Mention, for the theme Natural heritage, landscapes and biodiversity, series 'Arborum sudaria'
2021 Wipplay, Mon environnement de travail (in association with Usimages) | Jury award winner, single photo 'In her fabric store, La Valletta, Malta'.
2021 Better Photography magazine, Urban Patterns | Honourable Mention, single photo 'Foster UAE Pavilion'
2019 Garden Photographer of the Year (London Royal Kew Gardens) | Finalist, single photo 'Lilies in a pond'.
2018 Wipplay, XXS | Jury third prize (experts Jean-Joseph Renucci and Alessandro Zuffi),single photo 'Can you see me?', publication in the French magazine Causette.
2021 - 2022 Critical reviews written by Monsieur Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret in the French e-magazine 'Lelittéraire'.
Liquid entropy Water Haiku Visage fragile
Publications and interviews
2022 Publication of an interview on the Instagram page of the Florence Contemporary Gallery
2021 Publication of some of my works in the LIMITLESS exhibition catalogue of the Florence Contemporary Gallery
2022 Feature of my series 'Liquid entropy' and 'Fragile memory' with an interview in the Viennese magazine 'Spectaculum Magazine'.
2022 Publication of my series 'Visage fragile' and 'Maredentro' in the section 'events' of the French magazine 'L'Œil de la Photographie'.
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2021 Publication of the portfolios 'Liquid entropy' and 'Water Haiku' in the section 'Portfolio des lecteurs' of the french magazine 'L'Œil de la Photographie'.
2018 Publication of the photo 'Who are you?' in two e-booklets created by Wipplay and the Bayard Édition.
La première histoire La deuxième histoire
My portfolios on the web