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Firebergs Series Cold 23 Environment Photographic Project by Patrizia Dottori Is Granted the Silver A' Design Award in Photography and Photo Manipulation Design
Patrizia Dottori honored for photography and photo manipulation design by the international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ Firebergs Series Cold 23 Environment Photographic Project by Patrizia Dottori, designed for PatIsHere, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Photography and Photo Manipulation Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The result belongs to the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Silver A' Design Award Explained
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
Regarding Firebergs Series Cold 23 Environment Photographic Project
The artist's project concerns a theme today at the center of global attention both at an institutional and population level: the environment. In these images the primary element is the ice and its melting. The artist created it through the chromatic inversion from positive to negative, which coincides with the concept of change, representing an opposite reality: the ice becomes fire, the cracks become a volcano. A new style that tells the problem by analyzing the Perito Moreno Glacier.
About Patrizia Dottori
Photography and politics are her two focal points, her pillars: photographic projects express her vision, often in a surreal way and aiming for beauty. In this she feels special and consistent. A better world is possible, it depends on all of us and she try to convey it through images. "Sometimes I think about the shots that I have not taken, but never about future ones... I keep looking inside myself, as I always have."
Award Record
Patrizia Dottori is a winner of 2 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards were granted between the 2020 - 2021 and the 2022 - 2023 editions of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Photography and Photo Manipulation Design Award
The A' Photography Design Award is an international photography competition recognizing good photographic creations by best photographers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to photographers, photojournalists, advertising agencies and digital artists from all countries. Typical entries include portraits, landscapes, still lifes, photojournalism, fashion shots and architectural images. The awarded photography designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/photography
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/149354
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/149354
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!149354
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/276309
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.arcipelagofotografico.it/index.php/portfolio/exhibits
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Firebergs Series Cold 23 Environment Photographic Project
- Function
- Environment Photographic Project
- Category
- Photography and Photo Manipulation Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Arts and Entertainment
- Colors
- Black, Chocolate, Saddle Brown, Maroon and Sienna
- Images
- 5
- Client
- PatIsHere
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Patrizia Dottori
- Country
- Italy
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #149354
Credits
- Image Credits
- Photographer Patrizia Dottori, FireBergs Series Cold 23, 2008.; Photographer Patrizia Dottori, FireBergs Series Cold 12, 2008.; Photographer Patrizia Dottori, FireBergs Series Scraps 2, 2008.; Photographer Patrizia Dottori, FireBergs Series Walls 2, 2008.; Photographer Patrizia Dottori, FireBergs Series Walls 5, 2008.
Design Details
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Realization and 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.
- Operation and Interaction
- 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.
- Project Duration and Location
- 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.
- Specifications
- 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.
- Keywords
- climatecrisis, environment, water, fire, volcano, glacier, cracks, volcaniclava, meltingglaciers, photography
