Biography
Floriana Avellino is a contemporary photographer based in Milan. The common thread throughout her work, transcending photographic genres, is the investigation of reality through the lens of "the beyond" and a dreamy, suspended atmosphere. For Avellino, photography is a powerful tool to convey a worldview that is a tension "towards", and an overcoming of, preconceived ideas, imposed orders, and fixed data. Photography questions the objectivity of perception and becomes a suggestion, a fascinating meeting point between dream and reality.Liminal physical and temporal spaces—those "in-between" places, suspended, which precisely because of their indeterminacy are full of possibilities and devoid of rigidity—often form the context from which the artist's projects emerge. "The beyond" is also present in her interpretation of identity, viewed not as something innate but as the result of continuous historical, cultural, and social constructions, and by its very nature susceptible to de- and reconstruction.Even details and minimalism, often applied to the architectural field, become symbol and suggestion, an abstraction of reality and a potential for reflection, transforming into a visual synecdoche: the part that tells the whole, or more precisely, the part as a tension towards the whole.
During her activity, Avellino has been awarded in several international photographic competitions, such as the Chromatic, Creative, Fine Art, Minimalist, Monovision Awards and the IPA (International Photography Awards).
Her work has been exhibited during a number of international events and galleries such as Venicephotolab, Loosenart exhibitions, the Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Spazio Arte Tolomeo in Milan, Photiq Gallery at Royal Lemington spa, UK and the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris.
Avellino is also present with her projects on photographic websites and magazines like Life Framer, Spectaculum Magazine, Artdoc Magazine, Mass Magazine, Docu Magazine, Dodho Magazine, Jup Magazine and Mnngful Platform.
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
2025 - FINE ART AWARDS - Honorable Mention, Architecture
2024 - TIFA (Tokyo International Foto Awards) - Honorable mention, Architecture category (abstract - series and Street photography category
2024 - BIFA (Budapest International Foto Awards) - Silver, Architecture category (abstract - series) and Honorable mention, Street photography category
2024 - ND AWARDS - Honorable mention, Architecture category (series) and Editorial
2024 - IMACRES AWARDS - Honorable mention, People and Fine Art categories
2024 - DODHO COLOR AWARDS - Best images
2024 - ARCHITECTURE MASTERPRIZE - Exterior architecture photography award, winner, Bridges category
- 2024 - PX3 (PRIS DE LA PHOTOGRAPHY PARIS) - Bronze award, Architecture category (series)
- 2024 - MONOVISION AWARDS - Honorable mention, Architecture category (series);
- 2024 - FINE ART AWARDS - Honorable Mention, Architecture / Street Photography
- 2023 - CHROMATIC AWARDS - Honorable mention, Architecture category;
- 2023 - IPA (INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS) - Honorable mention, Editorial/Press category;
- 2023 - MONOVISION AWARDS - Honorable mention, Architecture category (single);
- 2023 - MINIMALIST PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS - Honorable mention, Architecture category;
- 2023 - PX3 (PRIS DE LA PHOTOGRAPHY PARIS) - Honorable mention;
- 2022 - CHROMATIC AWARDS - Honorable mention, Architecture category;
- 2022 - IPA - Honorable Mention, Architecture category, Official Selection, People / Architecture category;
- 2022 - IPA ONE SHOT (Colors) - Honorable mention, Architecture category;
- 2022 - MONOVISION AWARDS - Honorable mention, Architecture category (series);
- 2022 - MINIMALIST PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS - Honorable mention, Night Photography category;
- 2022 - FINE ART AWARD - Honorable mention, Architecture / Street Photography / Night Photography categories;
- 2021/2022 THE PRINT SWAP by FEATURE SHOOT;
- 2021 - CREATIVE AWARDS - Finalist;
- 2021 - LIFE FRAMER'S THE FACE OF THE EARTH COMPETITION - Editor's mention;
- 2021 - CHROMATIC AWARDS - Honorable mention, Architecture / Street categories;
PUBLICATIONS
Docu Magazine, Spectaculum Magazine, Artdoc Magazine, Dodho Magazine, Jup Magazine, Mnngful Platform, Life Framer's Collection
INTERVIEWS and USEFUL LINKS
Portraits | FLORIANA AVELLINO, MINIMAL SIGNS AND FORMS OF THE ESSENTIAL | Loosenart Millepiani Gallery
Solo Exhibition | FLORIANA AVELLINO | Publishing house "Pagine"
Artdoc Magazine membership with the project "Minimalist impressions of an Italian village"
Spectaculum Magazine with the projects "Christmas dream" and "Minimalist impressions of an Italian village"
LENSCULTURE,
Profile
Mnngful.com with the project "Holidays, the wait"
Life Framer Collection with the project "Holidays, the wait"