ASFERICO is an annual Nature Photography Competition organised by the Italian Wildlife Pictures Associations (AFNI – Associazione Fotografi Naturalisti Italiani).
AFNI was born in Milan in 1989 on the initiative of Paolo Fioratti (internationally famend naturalist photographer, creator after which director of the journal “Oasis” and at the moment honorary president of the Affiliation) and has unfold all through the nation with operational sections within the north, within the middle, within the south and within the islands.
Established to reinforce the potential of nature images, for a greater information, documentation and dissemination of the traits of pure environments, it was the primary to take the necessity to decisively tackle the issue of potential injury, straight brought on to dwelling species by the photonaturalist, culturally unprepared or unwary from the will for fulfillment. Even at present this is without doubt one of the qualifying factors of the statute of the Affiliation which has set itself the purpose of spreading naturalistic information by means of new methods of doing images, geared toward discovering photographs wealthy in content material and notably vital, in addition to technically right and aesthetically considerable. Nature images as a matter of tradition
AFNI, the Affiliation of Italian Naturalist Photographers, understands naturalistic images as a matter of tradition, as a way to inform one of many infinite chapters of the nice ebook of Nature.
To do that, it will be significant for the photographer to know that the “ecology” of the topic is important, be it an atmosphere as an entire, a single species or a behavioral state of affairs.
Solely then can he contemplate himself a nature photographer. This imaginative and prescient of a extra cultural {photograph} is especially essential at present that the atmosphere suffers violence of every kind, because the ethics of the photonaturalist derives exactly from information and with out it he dangers changing into a vandal.
The photograph, briefly, just isn’t conceived as a sequence of snatched pictures wandering with the telephoto lens and favoring solely the “sporty” facet, the rapidity of focus, or the “issue” of the topic.
These are the encompassing circumstances, definitely essential, indispensable and suggestive, however what issues above all is the that means of the “discourse”.
It’s with this mentality that AFNI proposes, by means of the actions supported by the Governing Council, by these organized regionally by the Sections, and by the contribution of all of the members, to provide concrete assist to the information and subsequently to the safety of our pure heritage.
There are eight classes in Nature Photography Competition:
[1] Panorama[2] Underwater worlds
[3] Mammals
[4] Birds
[5] Different animals
[6] Crops and fungi
[7] Composition and kinds
[8] Man and nature
Awards:-
The overall winner will receive:
– €3.000
– 10 days trekking in Malawi
– carbon gimbal type Kevlass Z
Each category winner will receive a cash prize of €500.
The runner up of each category will receive €250.
Two young photographers will each receive €200 gift card.
Deadline:- 29-11-2020
Entry fees:-
The entry fee is €25.
There is no entry fee for the young photographers (aged 17 and under).
