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ANTONELLA MONZONI
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Copyright © Antonella Monzoni / All rights reserved
Antonella
Monzoni
lives in Modena, Italy. Between her humanistic reports, focused on the cultural assimilation of
memory and on symbols and places of remembrance as traces of belonging, we can
recall Madame (Mario Giacomelli Prize
2007, Selected PhotoEspaña-Descubrimientos 2008), Somewhere in Russia
(Chatwin Prize for Photography 2007), Silent
Beauty (Honorable Mention International Photography Awards 2008), Ferita Armena (2009: Honorable Mention
Amnesty International in Festival for Rights, Finalist Amilcare Ponchielli
Prize, Selected Visa pour l’Image in Perpignan). In 2009 she won the Best
Photographer Award at Photovernissage in St. Petersburg and was named FIAF
Author of the Year in 2010. Since 2011 she has been a member of the Synap(see)
Collective. She received the Vienna International Photo Awards First Prize 2012.
In
the first two days of November in Mexico they celebrate El Dia de los Muertos, with celebrations, games and traditional
dishes in something between Anglo-Saxon Halloween and local rites. With skeleton-shaped
candies, toys, statues and decorations, people joke with death and decorate
family tombs combining religion and picnics. The cemeteries are open to balloon
and ice cream vendors and to mariachi orchestras singing the favourite songs of
the deceased on the graves. And the children play “trick or treat” and parade through the streets and squares dressed up as devils, vampires and mummies.
Website : www.antonellamonzoni.it
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