Winners 2022

Massimiliano Faralli – Jurassic Street

Photography is language, narration capable of telling a story in a possible game between fiction and reality.
The scene, set around the corner of an “any” city, is constructed in such a way as to refer to immediate and clear cinematic themes. On the left the rear of a car with the hatch open, in the center a female figure and on the right on the wall of a building the shadows of two dinosaurs that immediately attract our attention and trigger the short circuit of the references.
A closer reading shows that the profile of the hatch is just that of a dinosaur with an open mouth that seems to be about to attack the woman … but the atmosphere becomes more and more enigmatic and disturbing: because the woman is amazed, and scared at the same time, looking into the camera at the photographer’s sight? Did she find out her secret about her?
Nino Migliori / URBAN 2022 Jury President