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Le champ (The field)
Le champ (The field)
Year of achievement : 2016

International Photography Awards (IPA), Honorable mention, 2016.

A field in motion reorganizes space. In time, structures emerge from the ground. On the surface a furrow is set to open to the fact that fertility is an organized endeavour. A sterile mass may also be a life support.
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Shape of wind
Shape of wind
Year of achievement : 2022
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Ovipare
Ovipare
Year of achievement - 2016

- Black & White Spider Awards, Abstract; Nominee (2020)


'' Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.''

Albert Einstein / Scientist
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The horde
The horde
Year of achievement - 2022

Année de réalisation - 2022

- MIFA - Moscow International Foto Awards, Gold Medal, Fine Art, 2022

- 35awards, 7th International Photography Awards, 2022

- Grey Cube Gallery, Honorable mention, 2022
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Fleeting thoughts
Fleeting thoughts
Year of achievment : 2019

- Book cover of " DisAppearing - Encounters in Disability Studies ", 2022

- Fine Art Photography Awards, Nominee, 2021

'' The photograph ''Fleeting thoughts'' reminds that the human mind is a dynamic entity and, this intimate part of all of us, is constantly evolving through time and space. ''

'' We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence ? ''
- Haruki Murakami / The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994)
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Weak force
Weak force
Year of achievement 2022

" For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back. "

― Albert Camus / The outsider (1942)
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The passage of time
The passage of time

Year of achievment : 2021

'' Time is the shore of the mind, everything that passes in front of it, and we believe that it's the time who goes on. ''

Rivarol / Maxims and Thoughts, Metaphysics (circa 1836)
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Morphosis
Morphosis
Year of achievement - 2017

'' The only sure thing about luck is that it will change. ''

Bret Harte / Writer and poet
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Peasants
Peasants
Year of achievement - 2019

- IPA - International Photography Awards (oct. 2020)

- Art Room Gallery, Honorable Mention (may 2020)

'' If we can give to urban people the peasant's love of nature and their deep understanding on the matter of nature's importance, the salvation of our Earth will be easier. ''
Murat İldan / Author
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One-eyed
One-eyed
Year of achievement - 2018

Eyewin Awards, Fine Arts, Honourable Mention (2019)

35 Awards; 4Th International photography Awards. Moscow, mai (2019)
Top 50 Canada photographers

The 2nd China Zhejiang (Xianghu lake), Nominee, (2018)

'' An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. ''
Mahatma Gandhi
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The Pillars of the World
The Pillars of the World
Year of achievement : 2016

International Photography Awards (IPA) 2016 .

After the big crunch, material consolidates and generates planets. At first glance, these planets appear lifeless and unable to support life. They seem to just exist silently in the light. But slowly, these rocks are and will be the foundations upon which the rest will come to be.

'' In this image, the strong directional lighting creates high contrast in a very sound manner. The shadows produce an interesting doubling effect of the rocks, and they also lend prominence to the lines in the sand. I also enjoy the suggestion of time and motion in this picture. '' (Lensculture, review 2017)
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Fish run
Fish run
Year of achievement : 2017

Eyewin Awards, Abstract, Honorable Mention (2019)

‘’ We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism.
Paul Brooks / The Pursuit of Wilderness; 1971
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Alectryon or the morning chant
Alectryon or the morning chant
Year of achievment : 2017

FAPA (Fine Art Photography awards) (2017)

TIFA (Tokyo International Foto Awards (2017)


In greek mythology, Alectryon should to make the watch and warn the lovers before they were surprised by the arrival of the daylight. Unfortunately, Alectryon fell asleep and Helios (the Sun) entered the lovers room.

Ares, irritated by his negligence, punishes him by changing him into a rooster so that he will never forget to announce the morning.
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Midnight procession
Midnight procession
Year of achievment : 2021

- Black & White Spider Awards, 2021, Nominee in Abstract
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Between us
Between us
Year of achievment : 2020

Why should distances matter? Between us there
may be oceans. there may be, deserts between us.
Take my words, read my poetry, make my thoughts
breathe life.”

Avijeet Das / Poet and a writer from New Delhi, India.
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Le voyage
Le voyage
Year of achievment : 2020

'' Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage. ''

Herman Melville / Moby Dick (1851)
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Hairdressing
Hairdressing
Year of achievement - 2018

- Black & White Spider Awards, Nominee in Still Life (2020)


'' I get a lot of 'cracks' about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any... ''
Ann Richards / was an American politician
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Signe
Signe
Year of achievment : 2016

'' And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. ''
Kahlil Gibran
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Withdrawn
Withdrawn
“ I want you to be weak. As weak as I am .”

Milan Kundera / The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984)
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The desperate swimmer
The desperate swimmer
Year of achievment : 2016

'' He alone is wise who can accommodate himself to all contingencies of life; but the fool contends, and struggling, like a swimmer, against the stream.

/ Latin proverb
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The crucible
The crucible
Year of achievement : 2016

IPA (International photography awards) 2016.

This is the true nature of home; a shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division.
John Ruskin (1819 - 1900) / Art critic, Writer. --

Fine print and framing, Free shipping (Canada-USA; except remote area); International shipping.
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L'enfouissement
L'enfouissement
Year of achievment : 2015
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No way out
No way out
Year of achievment : 2020

“ No, freedom was not what I wanted. Only a way out; right or left, or in any direction; I made no other demand; even should the way out prove to be an illusion; the demand was a small one, the disappointment could be no bigger. To get out somewhere, to get out! Only not to stay motionless with raised arms, crushed against a wooden wall.”

Franz Kafka / A Report for an Academy (1917
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Hydra
Hydra
Year of achievement : 2017

FAPA (Fineart Photography awards) (2017)

TIFA (Tokyo International Foto Awards) (2017)

People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi / Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (1990)
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In the Second Labor of Heracles (Hercule) the Hydra of Lerna was a serpentine water monster in Greek and Roman mythology. Later versions story add a regeneration feature to the monster: for every head chopped off, the Hydra would regrow a couple of heads.
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Shellter
Shellter
Year of achievement : 2016

- Camelback Gallery, Bronze Award, 2022

IPA (International photography awards) 2016.

At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.
Richard Claxton / Writer
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