Photograph: Terna presents the Driving Energy 2022 award

(ANSA) – ROME, MAY 19 – Terna, the company that manages the electricity transmission grid, presents the “Driving Energy 2022 Award – Contemporary Photography”. The competition, which received the Medal of the President of the Republic, aims to become a turning point for photographers.

The theme of the first edition is “Cameras on Driving Energy”.

“We want to enhance the centrality of energy in the present and in the future of the country, also in an artistic sense. To understand how there is great beauty inside this apparently technical element”, says Terna CEO Stefano Donnarumma at the presentation of the competition at the Auditorium Parco della Musica.

“This Award was born under the banner of an affinity, which I would define genetic, between photographic art and the transmission of energy.

Daughters of the same industrial revolution, they were fundamental for the birth and evolution of today’s world “, declared the curator of the Marco Delogu award, indicating the goal of” building an important chapter of photography in Italy over the years “.

For Terna, the competition “means returning to culture, for the benefit of the country. It speaks of our values, courage, loyalty and inclusion”, said Terna’s president, Valentina Bosetti.

The finalist photographic works will be exhibited in November in an exhibition set up in Rome, at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni and published in a book. A jury will decide five winners of the competition: Senior, who will win a prize of 15,000 euros, Young, with a prize of 5,000 euros, and three Special Mentions, with prizes of 2,000 euros. (HANDLE).

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