Karim Carella

Karim Carella arrives late to photography, with a degree in Statistical Sciences and a life in search of spaces suitable for his insatiable creativity, which will lead him to abandon his work and life in Milan attracted by the primordial need of the sea. Karim’s journey in photography is a journey in search of himself, or perhaps only of his place in the world, in a gradually more conscious and autobiographical way.

The gradual and growing selection of shapes and tones, thanks also to the purification of the chromatic compositions, reaches a concept of photography immobile in time and isolated in space, and to representations increasingly tending towards the abstract. This research, which apparently assumes the risky connotations of a formalistic, almost snobbish attitude, actually reveals the search for a new code, capable of emphasizing the cry of pain of the violated nature.

The love for nature, for the sea in particular, and man’s awareness of the threat, lead him to select progressively more and more abstract forms in which to dissolve almost every call to reality.

Primordial elements scrambled on a single plane, and then redesigned on layers with different coordinates, on a rarefied, mobile, fantastic background. It is a research in which the photographic language embarks on a courageous journey towards the abstract dimension. A process of transcendence that brings us back to the avant-garde of the twentieth century.

AWARDS

2017 Monochrome Awards
– Honorable mention for “Born in the 18th century” photograph – Fine Art;

2017 ND Awards
– Honorable mention for “Tyrsenoi (their land) – the trees over the hills” series – Fine Art landscapes;

2017 Black & White Spider Awards
– Nominee for “Fortytwo cypress trees” photograph – Fine Art;
– Nominee for “Four buoys” photograph – Fine Art;
– Nominee for “Born in the 18th century” photograph – Nature.

2017 IPA International Photo Awards
– Honorable mention for “Born in the 18th century” photograph – Fine Art landscapes;

2016 ND Awards
– Honorable mention for “Streetlights in the park” photograph – Fine Art landscapes;
– Honorable mention for “The pawns and the chessboard” photograph – Fine Art Conceptual.

2016 Black & White Spider Awards
– Nominee for “Rolling” photograph – Abstract;
– Nominee for “Flows” photograph – Nature.

2016 IPA International Photo Awards
– Honorable mention for “Sealos” photograph – Fine Art landscapes;
– Honorable mention for “Rolling” photograph – Fine Art landscapes;
– Honorable mention for “The western ridge” photograph – Fine Art Landscapes.

2016 MIFA Moscow International Foto Awards
- Honorable mention for "Tribute to venice" photo - Architecture Cityscapes;

2015 ND Awards
- Honorable mention for "Phoenician fishing" project - Fine Art landscapes;

2015 MIFA Moscow International Foto Awards:
- Honorable mention for "Rocks in the clouds" project - Fine Art landscapes;
- Honorable mention for "Phoenician fishing" project - Fine Art landscapes;

2015 IPA International Photo Awards:
- Honorable mention for "Rocks in the clouds" project - Fine Art landscapes;
- Honorable mention for "The remote lake" photograph - Fine Art landscapes;

2014 Black & White Spider Awards:
- 2 Nominees in Nature.

2014 IPA International Photo Awards:
- 2 Honorable mentions in Fine Art.

2013 IPA International Photo Awards:
- 3 Honorable mentions in Architecture;
- 1 Honorable mention in Fine Art.

2012 IPA International Photo Awards:
- 3 Honorable mentions in Fine Art;
- 1 Honorable mention in Nature.