GIANCARLO RUPOLO
Crystallizations

Art does not reproduce what is visible, but makes visible what is not always visible.
(Paul Klee)
Unknown situations, normally not visible.
Images of worlds visible to the human eye only through the use of special photographic techniques. Crystal formations are photographed, using an optical microscope, during their generation. Natural phenomena that nature continually creates even if not apparently visible and observed from new perspectives with an eye and a particular sensitivity in the use of double polarization light. Nature, with its mechanisms, often fascinates us with its processes, allowing the photographer, with his sensitivity, to give life to true works of art.

The images were obtained in analog mode, during a crystallization, using a Leitz Orthoplan microscope with dual polarization illumination.

Author
Born in 1945. Amateur photo. He has made several reportages: circumcision in Muslim culture, life in Roma camps in Albania, Romania after the fall of Ceausescu, the life of peasants and the story of a healer in a Cameroon forest, the time inside the prison , the desolation of Chernobyl and Pripyat, the pain of Srebrenica and mass movements during religious celebrations.
Named "AUTHOR OF THE YEAR 2012" FIAF for F.V.G.
and "ARTIST OF ITALIAN PHOTOGRAPHY" in 2016 by the FIAF.
He has won numerous national and international awards including: 10th Memorial Mario Giacomelli, Luz contra el Racismo in Madrid, New Talent of the Year Award at the Moscow International Foto Awards, Portfolio Italia - Grand Prix Hasselblad, Fine Art Phtography Awards, Chiana International Photo Festival in Greece, silver medal at the Prix de la Photographie in Paris (Px3) 2019. In 2020: Fine ArtPhtography Awards 3rd place, honorable mention PX3 Paris, Umbra Award Seal 1ST Place Winner and 1st Place Winner IPA Award.

Website
www.giancarlorupolo.it

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