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WoodBergs Natur by Patrizia Dottori

WoodBergs Natur by Patrizia Dottori is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award in Eisen in Fotografiedesign Competition Category.


EisenFotografie· 2021

WoodBergs Natur

by Patrizia Dottori

Client: *PatIsHere

A' Design Award in Eisen Winner in Fotografie Category

Colors

The Design

About WoodBergs Natur

Diese Bilder stellen Details von gefällten Baumabschnitten dar, um sie in etwas anderes umzuwandeln. Die Verwendung von Negativinversion und Direktdruck auf Aluminium verstärkt die Farben und das Konzept der Zerstörung unseres Planeten. Der Künstler lässt sich von künstlerischer Fotografie und Umweltrechten inspirieren und transformiert Details von Natur und Flora: Fototechnik und Rechte verschmelzen zu surrealen Bildern, um den Betrachter zum Nachdenken darüber anzuregen, was getan werden kann, um den Planeten zu schützen. Eine bessere Welt ist möglich, es hängt auch von Ihnen ab.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award in Eisen

WoodBergs Natur ist Gewinner des A' Design Award in Eisen, einer prestigeträchtigen Anerkennung für gute Designs, die die beruflichen und industriellen Anforderungen erfüllen, die an gut gestaltete Schöpfungen gestellt werden. Eisen-Gewinner zeigen großes Können, hohe Spezialisierung, fachkundiges Verständnis und die kreative Kapazität ihrer Schöpfer. Von WoodBergs Natur wird erwartet, dass es eine hochgeschätzte, bewunderte und geliebte Schöpfung ist, die praktisch und innovativ ist. Dieses mit dem A' Design Award in Eisen prämierte Design integriert bewährte Branchenverfahren und weist kompetente technische Merkmale in Verbindung mit Know-how und Talent auf. WoodBergs Natur wird für seine Gründlichkeit geschätzt und ist darauf ausgelegt, Verbesserungen der Lebensqualität zu liefern, die dazu beitragen, die Welt zu einem besseren Ort zu machen.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties
It is one of the seven works on the elements of nature, flora, printed in negative directly on aluminum. In these images, which belong to the Winter series, are trees cut and ready to be distributed and transformed.
The use of surreal expression through negative inversion is a technique that the artist began to use in 2008 to reinforce the concept he wants to express: increasing the level of awareness on the consequences of our actions on the environmental issue.
Dimensions & Packaging
All the pictures are printed in negative directed on aluminium.
900 mm x 650 mm (orizontal pictures), 0,5 mm depth.
Tags
nature, wood, trees, flowers, leaves, environment, planet, photography, photo, artistic-photos
Production Technology
She tooks the pictures in this case with her smartphone Samsung S7edge, raw method, as because she realized that she went in a carpentry where she found all the trees cut down and ready to be transformed into something else. It was a unique moment.
Than she inverted the pictures with Adobe Photoshop, as she did with the other pictures of the project, and she put them in the Series Winter.
Finally she printed them directly on aluminum to enhance the colors.
Design Challenge
Her thoughts on environmental issues and her surrealistic taste have pushed her into expressive research, through photography, to express her point of view with an artistic eye both for the technique (photographic inversion) and for the realization.
The difficulty in photography and in this project lies in capturing the viewer's attention through a beautiful and mysterious image. The increased visibility increases the possibility of understanding that all mankind must safeguard nature and the planet before it is too late.
Research
It is a type of photographic research on nature, flora, in details and in panoramas, which aims to awaken the conscience on the environmental problem, using above all the professional camera (Nikon) but also the mobile phone on some occasions, like this one. In showing the photos during the exhibitions she was able to listen to the sensations and emotions that the images created in the impact with the visitors and to understand if the right questions were asked to interpret her goal.
Inspiration
Photography and politics are two fundamental elements in her life. When she started the environmental rights project, in order to sensitize people to safeguard nature, she took into consideration the four fundamental elements. But later she had the need to interpret Flora and for this reason she examined the oriental philosophy which is based on the five fundamental elements, therefore including wood, which becomes her Flora, represented in negative.
Project Duration
The WoodBergs project started in November 2012 in New Canaan in Conecticut and last presented in April 2015 in Rome. These photos from the Winter Series in particular were never presented in public because they were taken later, in 2017.
Operation Flow
Photos do not transform themselves but they could transform the mind of the viewer because he sees different colors from reality and asks himself questions.
Image Credits
Image #No 1: patrizia dottori, WB_S4_Wood_09, 2017
Optional Image #No 1: patrizia dottori, WB_S4_Wood_01, 2017
Optional Image #No 2: patrizia dottori, WB_S4_Wood_03, 2017
Optional Image #No 3: patrizia dottori, WB_S4_Wood_05, 2017
Optional Image #No 4: patrizia dottori, WB_S4_Wood_10, 2017
Video Credit: patrizia dottori, 2014

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