Dina Bova
Projects
Biography
Award winning photographer, Dina Bova, appeals to the spectators senses by presenting her own. Purified of symbolism and didactic reasoning, Bova’s images are a testament to instinct, and as such, are paradoxical and sometimes absurd, whilst retaining an essence of hope. For Dina, art is something that appeals to our senses and emotions, and not to our intellect. Bova’s works are limitless in their imaginative potential. Her magical realism frees the viewer from the perceived limits of the photographic medium, and the way we perceive reality.
Publications:
- March 2011, Composition Magazine issue 17 – interview, portfolio and work analysis
- 2010, Three Women – Three Worlds - photo-art book. Publisher: BSW-Art, Tel-Aviv
- Best of Photography 2010 book. Publisher: Serbin Communications
- February 2010, Photo District News (PDN) magazine, New-York, USA P
- DN PhotoServe portfolio as World in Focus
- 2010 winner Sony World Photography Awards – Cannes 2010 book. Publisher: VERLHAC Editions.
- October 2010, Day Dreaming Magazine – “Masks and Creatures”, Italy
- Sony World Photography Awards – Cannes 2009 book. Publisher: VERLHAC Editions.
- November 2009, A photo-manipulation process, PhotoArt magazine, Prague
- January 2009, Portfolio in "World of Photography" magazine, Tel-Aviv, Israel
- 2008 Portfolio in PhotoArt magazine, Prague, Czech republic November
- Numerous publications in catalogues of international photography contests
Exhibitions
Exhibitions:
- 2011 - Solo exhibit in Tel-Hai Museum of Photography, Israel (exact date TBA)
- April 2011, AtlanticGallery, New-York, USA
- May 2011, ViaTortona, Milano, Italy
- June 2011, HamiltonGallery, Los Angeles, USA
- June 2011, TheCenter of Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, USA
- 2011, “Magic Realism from Israel”, Photo – Center, Moscow
- 2011, “Exhibition of women artists”, Centro Cultural de Maracena, Granada, Spain
- 2011, “Feria Internacional del Arte”, collective exhibitions in several places as a part of the art festival in Granada, Spain
- 2010, “Mismatches Mesh – photo-art international exhibition”, Seen gallery as a part of Atlanta Celebrates Photography festival, Atlanta, USA
- 2010, "Magic Realism & Real Magic - international exhibition of surreal contemporary art, Tel-Aviv, Israel
- 2010, “Old Jaffa’s secrets”, Jaffa, Israel
- 2010, “Three Women - Three Worlds”, Tel-Aviv, Israel
- 2008, 2009, 2010, “A new eye on Israel”, Group
- 2008, “Art Photographer”, Russian cultural center, Tel-Aviv, Israel, Group
Awards
Dina Bova been participatingin international photo contests and exhibitions since 2008.Currently 63 of her works were awardedwith over 260 prizes in 24 countries.
Summary - total: 48 medals, 3 trophies andover 200 other awards
Selected awards:
- Blindonkey Art Prize 2011 (Italy) - Grand prize winner in Digital Art category.
- Hasselblad Masters 2011 (Denmark) – one of 10 finalists in “up and coming” category. Winners will be announced at the end of 2011
- IPA 2010 – International Photography Awards (USA) – 4 honorable mention awards for professional Fine-Art categories. Three series - Collage, Nudes, Portrait and one single. Total 11 artworks.
- World in Focus 2010 by Photo District News (PDN) (New-York) – First prize in professional category "Outdoor scenes"
- PDN portfolio of the month August 2010 – one of ten best portfolios on PDN PhotoServe.
- Aqüeducte Biennale 2010 (Barcelona) - Gold Aqüeducte author
- Sony World Photography award 2010 (Cannes) - one of 10 nominations for best landscape
- Foto-future 2010 (Moscow) – 1st place in professional category "Fantasy about the future" - Winzavod - Moscow Centre for Contemporary Art
- Asahi Shimbun international photo contest 2010 (Tokyo) – honorable mention medal
- Memorial Maria Luisa 2010 (Spain) - 3d prize nature
- Nikon Photo Contest International 2008-2009 (Tokyo) - 2nd prize
- Sony World Photography award 2009 (Cannes) - commendation awar
Was awarded with Proficiency PSA (PPSA) title by Photographic Society of America – September 2010 and was selected in top photographers in electronic imaging for 2010
Other awards: - 21 Gold medals in international photo-contests under FIAP/PSA patronage in USA, Austria, France, Spain, England, Croatia, Ukraine, Cyprus, China, Vietnam, Taiwan and Israel
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