Paola Serino
Photographer / Based in Rome (Italy)
Paola Serino lives and works in Rome. In 2002 she begins her training at the Ansel Adams photography school in Rome, also attending workshops with Leonard Freed, Michael Ackerman and Anders Petersen. After early works closer to reportage, including the series "Drag Queen," which received a B&W magazine Portfolio Contest award in 2010, she begins to concentrate mainly on portrait photography.Through her work she is interested in exploring the formal beauty and natural glamour of her subjects and at the same time the emotional closeness to them. In 2010 she produces a work in the Rome Dance Academy, which receives a special TPW mention at the FNAC photo talent competition. Her later portrait works win awards and special mentions in several international competitions, including second and third prize at the 2013 Prix de la Photographie Paris and in 2012 il second prize at the International Photography Award. Her work has been on show at personal and collective exhibitions since 2005. website: www.paolaserino.com