BOlogna, Jan 31 (askanews) – The eighth edition of the Mast Photography Grant On Industry and Work of the Mast Foundation of Bologna saw the choice of five finalists who brought their works to the museum spaces. Urs Stahel edited the exhibition and told us the meaning of the competition.
“The prize – he told askanews – asked the young photographers to work on production, to wonder how the things we use every day are producedon what a industrial and post-industrial world means today. And these works go deep, much more than usual, and tell us about a part of the world that we do not see, because it is hidden under the brilliant surfaces. But we need to know these things, because they will help us understand the world. “
The photographs of Sheida Soleimani
A world that is plural and complex, not recommended by the economic dynamics and the logic of power, but still capable of finding spaces of emotion, as happens with The photographs of Sheida Soleimani, an American of Iranian origin who won the competition with his powerful and unusual images. “Sheida – added Stahel – for me it is like a small volcano for how it speaks, as she thinks and how it produces its work. He is committed to making his images appear simple, but each job has six or seven different levels. She is of Iranian origin and her family had to escape from the country and now live in the United States, in her work she approaches her father’s adventure to those of migratory birds “.
The stories of women activists in Iran intertwine With the events of wounded migratory due to the collisions with the buildings built by man in a crescendo of possibilities and stories that photography manages to summarize in a decisive image.
Next to Soleimani the other finalists whose works are now exhibited at the Mast are the British Felicity Hammond, the Congolese Gosette Lubondo, the Italian Silvia Rosi and the Australian Kai Wasikowski.
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