TTA 2022

INTRODUCTION

A great initiative aimed at Professional and Passionate Photographers who want to “pull out” their best travel stories from their drawers and tell them with a high-level photographic narrative vision.

Starring, with  Photographers.it e Isp, proposes TRAVEL TALES AWARD, an extended initiative for the promotion of authorial projects related to Travel Photography, in collaboration with the magazine Il Fotografo,  Viaggio Fotografico.it, OTTO Gallery, Colorno Photo Life Festival and Plovdid Festival.

The 2022 edition of the Award saw the participation of over 150 authors, with a first selection of 50 stories, and a series of stories awarded in various ways, which you can see in this section.

In this section you can see the various assignments of the selected stories. First the specific initiative dedicated to Instagram: we selected 26 authors from the over 3.500 single shots published by over 800 photographers on  Instagram with the hashtag # TTA2022 to participate to the collective exhibithion WORLD PICS in Colorno, from august 26th, in the great location L’Aranciaia for the festival Colorno Photo Life,  and published also in the dedicated section “Travel World Pics” of this site.

The selection of the projects and final single pictures has been  screened by a commission of experts and professionals composed as follows:

  • Federica Berzioli, chief editor of IL FOTOGRAFO Magazine
  • Angelo Cucchetto, owner of Photographers.it and ISP, editor of CITIES
  • Loredana De Pace,  Journalist and curator
  • Roberto Gabriele, photographer and owner of ViaggioFotografico.it
  • Attilio Lauria, Journalist and curator
  • Gigi Montali, photographer and Ad of Colorno Photo Life Festival
  • Simona Ottolenghi, owner of ViaggioFotografico.it and curator of Otto Gallery
  • Giovanni Pelloso, director of IL FOTOGRAFO Magazine

ABSOLUTE WINNERS

the #TTA2022 winners!
first has been declared Younes Mohammad, with his story “Chaldoran
second Alessandro Malaguti, with his story “Siberia
third Claudio Varaldi, with his story “in viaggio con la lupa
special mention to Stefano Bianchi exhibithed in International Photo Salon Plovdiv 2022, with his story “Genna il Natale Copto
and special mention too at the Plovdiv selected Author Miroslav Mominski for his story “life in Rodhope mountains

COLORNO PHOTO LIFE FESTIVAL

In Colorno we also showed a projection of the 16 stories that will be pubshished in the book Travel Tales II, curated by Simona Ottolenghi with text of Attilio LauriaHere and here  the two videos of the book showed in Colorno.

ROME TTA WEEKEND

In Rome, at TTA Weekend, on october 1 the book Travel Tales II will be presented  during the TTA final awarding weekend at october, 1st and 2nd, and we will also open the Exhibition Travel Tales, with 11 stories selected, see Travel Tales Rome Exhibition

PLOVDIV FESTIVAL Two stories have been selected by our partner Plovdiv Photosalon and been exhibited during the Festival in August, Younes Mohammad – Chaldoran  and Stefano Bianchi – Genna, il Natale CoptoWe guest on our exhibithion in Rome the winner of their Festival, Miroslav Mominski  with his story  Life in Rhodope Mountains  

NOCSENSEI INTERVIEW

One story has been selected by Loredana De pace for a complete interview on NocSensei portal, Orietta Masala – Memories,  see  https://www.nocsensei.com/interviste/loredanadepace/memories-di-orietta-masala/emories. Nocsensei is also republishing some of the stories during the year.

IL FOTOGRAFO

The Magazine IL FOTOGRAFO selected 3 portfolios, that will be published on the special edition about Climate changing in november: Ugo Baldassarre – Basilicata insideFranco Beretta – La Normandia and  Claudio Varaldi – il delta del Po.

We are always looking for original and fascinating stories that tell travelers and their travel in any way characterized by an excellence of photographic language. The sea, the desert and the people, the mountains and the reportage are all right.

February 7th

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May 16th

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June 15th

Publication of finalists with relative rewards

August 26th

Colorno Palace - Exhibition opening and presentation of the Travel Tales II book at Colorno Photo Life

October 1st

Rome - Award ceremony and exhibition at OTTO Gallery