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Firebergs Series Cold 23 Proyek Fotografi Lingkungan by Patrizia Dottori

Firebergs Series Cold 23 Proyek Fotografi Lingkungan by Patrizia Dottori is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award Perak in Desain Fotografi dan Manipulasi Foto Competition Category.


PerakFotografi· 2023

Firebergs Series Cold 23 Proyek Fotografi Lingkungan

by Patrizia Dottori

Client: PatIsHere

A' Design Award Perak Winner in Fotografi Category

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The Design

About Firebergs Series Cold 23 Proyek Fotografi Lingkungan

Proyek seniman ini mengangkat tema yang saat ini menjadi pusat perhatian global baik di tingkat institusional maupun populasi: lingkungan hidup. Dalam gambar ini elemen utamanya adalah es dan pencairannya. Sang seniman menciptakannya melalui inversi kromatik dari positif ke negatif, yang bertepatan dengan konsep perubahan, mewakili realitas sebaliknya: es menjadi api, retakan menjadi gunung berapi. Sebuah gaya baru yang menceritakan masalah dengan menganalisis Gletser Perito Moreno.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Perak

Firebergs Series Cold 23 Proyek Fotografi Lingkungan adalah pemenang A' Design Award Perak, pengakuan yang sangat bergengsi yang diberikan kepada desain kelas atas yang indah dan mengesankan. Pemenang Perak adalah karya yang sangat cemerlang dan sangat kreatif yang menggambarkan keahlian, bakat, dan ketajaman luar biasa para desainernya. Firebergs Series Cold 23 Proyek Fotografi Lingkungan diharapkan menjadi karya yang menakjubkan, etalase keahlian, sangat profesional, dan sangat inovatif. Desain pemenang A' Design Award Perak ini adalah penemuan yang sangat menonjol dan dikagumi yang bermanfaat bagi dan memajukan batas-batas seni, sains, desain, dan teknologi. Firebergs Series Cold 23 Proyek Fotografi Lingkungan adalah kreasi yang sangat dicemburui yang membangkitkan keinginan, membawa perasaan positif, dan memercikkan keheranan dan kekaguman.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties
Project on the environment with ice as the primary element and its melting. Made through the chromatic inversion from positive to negative, which coincides with the concept of change, representing an opposite reality, fire and volcano. A surreal journey of unsettling images to tell the Perito Moreno Glacier in an absolutely unique way.
Dimensions & Packaging
The print dimensions are 100 x 70cm. to which is added a 5 cm black frame of depth.
Some shots have been printed to be exhibited in various exhibitions, on warm photographic paper in order to enhance the colours.
Tags
climatecrisis, environment, water, fire, volcano, glacier, cracks, volcaniclava, meltingglaciers, photography
Production Technology
The images were taken with a professional camera, Nikon D200, then post-production was performed with Adobe Photoshop and Camera raw to achieve the chromatic inversion.
Design Challenge
To photographically represent environmental issues, I climbed up one side of the Perito Moreno Glacier. There I associated cold with heat, which is the element that melts ice. Thanks to the knowledge of printing techniques, I imagined the solution in the inversion from positive to negative: this is how the glacier becomes a volcano, its lava cracks and the photographic solution reflects its concept, focusing attention on possible solutions.
Research
The research concerns a new way of narrating the problem of the environment to bring users closer to looking at the issue from a different point of view. I verified the chromatic inversion method on the spot using a Nokia mobile phone that shot directly in the negative and then I took the images with the professional camera that I worked in post-production. During the exhibitions people were very attracted by the visual impact.
Inspiration
Inspired by the glacier itself, with its blue cracks becoming tongues of fire, volcanic lava. Representing Nature with surreal images and using chromatic inversion to emphasize the concept of "negative" both as a technical meaning and as a conceptual meaning.
Project Duration
The project was born at the end of 2007 on the Perito Moreno Glacier, Argentina. It is a work in progress on the environment. To date it has been exhibited in 2008 at the Tarahan-Azad Art Gallery in Tehran, in 2011 at the Centro Cultural Borges in Buenos Aires, in 2013 at the Italian Cultural Institute in Buenos Aires, in 2015 at Galleria Spazio 88 and at Studio Arte Fuori Downtown Rome. New images are currently being worked on.
Operation Flow
This work, divided into series to create a path of reading and imagination, immediately evokes a volcano. A closer look, for example in image n.1, where the water seems to enter the lava, or in the images of the Walls and Scraps Series, creates a doubt and the observer wonders whether it is a volcano or of other. In unfolding, the positive-to-negative reversal, where heat burns ice, faces the issue of the climate crisis.
Patents
Copyrights belong to Patrizia Dottori, Year 2008.
Image Credits
Image #1: Photographer Patrizia Dottori, FireBergs Series Cold 23, 2008. Image #2: Photographer Patrizia Dottori, FireBergs Series Cold 12, 2008. Image #3: Photographer Patrizia Dottori, FireBergs Series Scraps 2, 2008. Image #4: Photographer Patrizia Dottori, FireBergs Series Walls 2, 2008. Image #5: Photographer Patrizia Dottori, FireBergs Series Walls 5, 2008.

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