Firebergs Series Cold 23 环境摄影项目 by Patrizia Dottori

Firebergs Series Cold 23 环境摄影项目 by Patrizia Dottori is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award 银奖 in 摄影与图片处理设计 Competition Category.

银摄影· 2023

Firebergs Series Cold 23 环境摄影项目

by Patrizia Dottori

Client: PatIsHere

A' Design Award 银奖 Winner in 摄影 Category

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The Design

About Firebergs Series Cold 23 环境摄影项目

艺术家的项目涉及当今全球机构和人口层面关注的中心主题：环境。在这些图像中，主要元素是冰及其融化。艺术家通过从正到负的色彩反转来创作，这与变化的概念不谋而合，代表着相反的现实：冰变成火，裂缝变成火山。通过分析佩里托莫雷诺冰川来讲述问题的新风格。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 银奖

Firebergs Series Cold 23 环境摄影项目是 A' Design Award 银奖得主，这是授予顶级、华美而令人印象深刻的设计的极为崇高的认可。银奖得主是极其卓越、极具创造力的作品，展现出其设计师杰出的专业技能、才华与敏锐。预计Firebergs Series Cold 23 环境摄影项目将成为一件出色的典范之作，兼具非凡的专业性与深刻的创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 银奖的设计是一项备受瞩目、令人钦佩的发明，造福并拓展艺术、科学、设计和技术的边界。Firebergs Series Cold 23 环境摄影项目是一件令人羡慕的创作，它唤起渴望，带来积极的情感，并激发惊叹与赞叹。

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.