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ABOUT ME

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Stefano Balma (Turin, 1988) is a landscape photographer whose work balances contemplation and aesthetic research. Based in Genoa, his artistic journey began with music before evolving toward photography, which he discovered and developed during his travels.

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His photographic training includes workshops with Niccolò Talenti and participation in educational photography trips organized by Gabriele Lorenzini of FotoCorsi. Since 2023, this experience has transformed into a professional collaboration where he serves as a tutor for groups of photographers in destinations such as Madeira and Greenland.

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His vision is characterized by evocative and balanced compositions, where vivid colors enhance the viewer's perception, inviting a contemplation that goes beyond simple landscape admiration.

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ARTIST STATEMENT

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Balma's photography is a search for wonder and awe through landscapes and natural elements.

His photographic vision, influenced by Buddhist practice which he began before approaching photography, focuses on themes of impermanence and time. His works do not merely document places but interpret them as manifestations of constant becoming, inviting reflection on our relationship with nature.

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His work unfolds through interconnected projects: series like "Shapes of Earth" tell the story of landscape as sculpture in eternal becoming. In "Shapes of Ice" he express the anguish of life's flow through a reportage on glacier melting.

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​While his photography explores remote locations and extreme landscapes, it is also deeply rooted in the Ligurian territory. It is here that Balma is developing "Sati Vana, the forest of awareness", depicts the Beigua Natural Park as the fairy-tale forest, a place of introspection and inner transformation. 

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His approach, rooted in contemplation but oriented toward wonder, invites the observer to question profound themes and explore themselves, through a nature that, like a tuning fork, can retune us and bring us back into harmony with it.

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Text by Alessandra Cusinato, Art Historian

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AWARDS

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• Honorable Mention at the Tokyo International Foto Awards (2022)

• Honorable Mention at the International Photography Awards (2022)

• Top 35 in the landscape category of the 35AWARDS (2022)

• Second place at the Fine Art Photography Awards, professional category (2023)

• Third prize at the Prix de la Photographie de Paris (2023)

• Honorable Mention at the Fine Art Awards (2025)

• Honorable Mention at the Monovisions Awards (2025)​

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EXPOSURES​​

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• 2023 Fiera dell'accoglienza di Rimini (Hospitality Fair, Rimini, Italy) - Collective exhibition

• 2024 Lezar House, Barcellona (Spain) - Collective exhibition​

• 2025 Montanari's optics - Solo exhibition

• 2025 Salotto 42, Roma - Collective exhibition

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PUBLICATIONS

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• ​​​2025 - March issue, Elements photomag publish his project "Shapes of Earth, the eternal sculpture of Nature" ​

• ​​2025 – An article on Fotocult.it about the project "Shapes of Earth"

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COLLABORATIONS

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• 2023 some of his works are curated by the Cinquerosso gallery in Bologna (Ita)

• 2023 collaboration with FotoCorsi School to guide some of their photography trips around the world

• 2025 his photos are available as limited edition fine art prints completely self-produced by the artist. 
  You can find them on Saatchi Art or contact the artist directly here.​​