{"id":39465,"date":"2025-09-05T16:01:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/?p=39465"},"modified":"2025-09-05T17:34:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T15:34:30","slug":"andrea-bettancini-wins-urban-press-award-2025-with-the-sound-of-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/it\/andrea-bettancini-wins-urban-press-award-2025-with-the-sound-of-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrea Bettancini vince l\u2019URBAN Press Award 2025 con The Sound of Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Siamo lieti di annunciare che <\/span><b>Andrea Bettancini<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> con il suo progetto <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Sound of Silence<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, \u00e8 il vincitore dell\u2019<\/span><b>URBAN Press Award 2025<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">L\u2019URBAN Press Award \u00e8 assegnato da una giuria composta da rappresentanti di alcune tra le pi\u00f9 autorevoli testate internazionali di fotografia e cultura visiva, Media Partner dell\u2019URBAN Photo Awards:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Bob Patterson<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Street Photography Magazine<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Cyrielle Gendron<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PHOTO.fr<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Federica Berzioli<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IL FOTOGRAFO<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>James Artaius<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Digital Camera World<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Nora Lalle<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pamplemousse Magazine<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Philippe Litzler<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">OPENEYE<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>SuzAnne Steben<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Photographic Journal<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Tomasz Trzebiatowski<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FRAMES<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Sound of Silence<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> ascolta il silenzio nascosto nel frastuono. In questa serie, il consueto rumore delle strade lascia spazio a qualcosa di pi\u00f9 intimo e riflessivo: un brusio invisibile, quotidiano, che prende forma attraverso presenze isolate, sguardi e ritmi visivi sottili. Il progetto si sviluppa come un flusso di immagini, frammenti di un pensiero visivo sospeso tra armonia e dissonanza, tra vicinanza e distanza. Bettancini non cattura lo spettacolo delle masse, ma la pausa, il respiro, la quiete. Il suo obiettivo non segue il rumore; ne rincorre l\u2019eco.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Con questo riconoscimento, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Sound of Silence<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> entra a far parte di una collezione sempre pi\u00f9 ricca di progetti premiati che incarnano la missione di URBAN: esplorare il paesaggio umano attraverso una fotografia che \u00e8 allo stesso tempo immediata e riflessiva.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><b>L\u2019autore Andrea Bettancini<\/b><\/h3>\n<div class=\"rgg-container\" data-rgg-id=\"3\">    <div class=\"rgg-imagegrid captions-overlay-hover-show captions-effect-slide_up \" data-rgg-id=\"3\">\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Andrea-Bettancini-the-sound-of-silence-4.jpg\" data-rel=\"rgglightbox-gallery-2\" rel=\"rgg\"  class=\"rgg-disabled size-full rgg-img rl-gallery-link\"  data-src=\"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Andrea-Bettancini-the-sound-of-silence-4.jpg\" data-ratio=\"0.733\" data-height=\"1000\" data-width=\"733\" aria-label=\"\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\">\n                <span class=\"rgg-caption-container\"><span class=\"rgg-caption\"><span class=\"rgg-inner-caption\">\u00a9 Andrea Bettancini<\/span><\/span><\/span>            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Andrea-Bettancini-the-sound-of-silence-5.jpg\" data-rel=\"rgglightbox-gallery-2\" rel=\"rgg\"  class=\"rgg-disabled size-full rgg-img rl-gallery-link\"  data-src=\"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Andrea-Bettancini-the-sound-of-silence-5.jpg\" data-ratio=\"0.733\" data-height=\"1000\" data-width=\"733\" aria-label=\"\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\">\n                <span class=\"rgg-caption-container\"><span class=\"rgg-caption\"><span class=\"rgg-inner-caption\">\u00a9 Andrea Bettancini<\/span><\/span><\/span>            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Andrea-Bettancini-the-sound-of-silence-6.jpg\" data-rel=\"rgglightbox-gallery-2\" rel=\"rgg\"  class=\"rgg-disabled size-full rgg-img rl-gallery-link\"  data-src=\"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Andrea-Bettancini-the-sound-of-silence-6.jpg\" data-ratio=\"1.4197530864198\" data-height=\"810\" data-width=\"1150\" aria-label=\"\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\">\n                <span class=\"rgg-caption-container\"><span class=\"rgg-caption\"><span class=\"rgg-inner-caption\">\u00a9 Andrea Bettancini<\/span><\/span><\/span>            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Andrea-Bettancini-the-sound-of-silence-7.jpg\" data-rel=\"rgglightbox-gallery-2\" rel=\"rgg\"  class=\"rgg-disabled size-full rgg-img rl-gallery-link\"  data-src=\"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Andrea-Bettancini-the-sound-of-silence-7.jpg\" data-ratio=\"1.4197530864198\" data-height=\"810\" data-width=\"1150\" aria-label=\"\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\">\n                <span class=\"rgg-caption-container\"><span class=\"rgg-caption\"><span class=\"rgg-inner-caption\">\u00a9 Andrea Bettancini<\/span><\/span><\/span>            <\/a>\n            <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">La mia formazione \u00e8 stata da sempre incentrata sulla creativit\u00e0: ho iniziato con il liceo artistico e poi ho proseguito con il corso di moda allo <\/span><b>IED di Milano<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. A Milano ho lavorato come designer per diversi marchi di abbigliamento e ho collaborato con una rivista di architettura del gruppo Mondadori. La fotografia \u00e8 sempre stata una mia passione, fin dai tempi dell\u2019analogico, con notti passate in camera oscura tra le bacinelle degli acidi.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Ho una predilezione per il reportage, la street photography e il racconto fotografico in generale che esplori la fusione e la contaminazione delle immagini per sviluppare un linguaggio visivo non analitico.<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"rgg-container\" data-rgg-id=\"4\">    <div class=\"rgg-imagegrid captions-overlay-hover-show captions-effect-slide_up \" data-rgg-id=\"4\">\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Andrea-Bettancini-the-sound-of-silence-3.jpg\" data-rel=\"rgglightbox-gallery-3\" rel=\"rgg\"  class=\"rgg-disabled size-full rgg-img rl-gallery-link\"  data-src=\"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Andrea-Bettancini-the-sound-of-silence-3.jpg\" data-ratio=\"1.4197530864198\" data-height=\"810\" data-width=\"1150\" aria-label=\"\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\">\n                <span class=\"rgg-caption-container\"><span class=\"rgg-caption\"><span class=\"rgg-inner-caption\">\u00a9 Andrea Bettancini<\/span><\/span><\/span>            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Andrea-Bettancini-the-sound-of-silence-2.jpg\" data-rel=\"rgglightbox-gallery-3\" rel=\"rgg\"  class=\"rgg-disabled size-full rgg-img rl-gallery-link\"  data-src=\"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Andrea-Bettancini-the-sound-of-silence-2.jpg\" data-ratio=\"1.4197530864198\" data-height=\"810\" data-width=\"1150\" aria-label=\"\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\">\n                <span class=\"rgg-caption-container\"><span class=\"rgg-caption\"><span class=\"rgg-inner-caption\">\u00a9 Andrea Bettancini<\/span><\/span><\/span>            <\/a>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Andrea-Bettancini-the-sound-of-silence-8.jpg\" data-rel=\"rgglightbox-gallery-3\" rel=\"rgg\"  class=\"rgg-disabled size-full rgg-img rl-gallery-link\"  data-src=\"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Andrea-Bettancini-the-sound-of-silence-8.jpg\" data-ratio=\"1.4197530864198\" data-height=\"810\" data-width=\"1150\" aria-label=\"\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\">\n                <span class=\"rgg-caption-container\"><span class=\"rgg-caption\"><span class=\"rgg-inner-caption\">\u00a9 Andrea Bettancini<\/span><\/span><\/span>            <\/a>\n            <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tra i miei riconoscimenti ci sono la selezione nella shortlist dei <\/span><b>Sony Awards 2022<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> nella sezione <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">professional documentary<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, la vittoria ai <\/span><b>ND Awards 2022<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> nella categoria long exposures, e la selezione come finalista agli <\/span><b>URBAN Photo Awards 2022\/2023<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (portfolio) e ai concorsi <\/span><b>World Water Day nel 2019 e nel 2022<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Sono stato anche vincitore del concorso <\/span><b>The Mind\u2019s Eye 2023 \u2013 All About Photo<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> e finalista ai <\/span><b>Gomma Black &amp; White Awards 2023<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (con risultati finali ancora in sospeso). Inoltre, sono stato premiato come <\/span><b>miglior autore in alcuni dei principali concorsi FIAF italiani<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, tra cui Follonica, Golden Chip, Cameri, Murlo e Brugine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Instagram:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/andreabettancini\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">@andreabettancini<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Siamo lieti di annunciare che Andrea Bettancini con il suo progetto The Sound of Silence, \u00e8 il vincitore dell\u2019URBAN Press Award 2025. L\u2019URBAN Press Award \u00e8 assegnato da una giuria composta da rappresentanti di alcune tra le pi\u00f9 autorevoli testate internazionali di fotografia e cultura [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39468,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[530,6],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39465"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39746,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39465\/revisions\/39746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}