Premio Combat Prize

Synopsis:
Coney Island Avenue is located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is long roughly five miles, beginning at Brighton Beach and traveling north to Prospect Park.
Taking the B68 bus line I realized how interesting Coney Island Ave is.
The bus runs the entire street, connecting the Prospect Park area and Downtown Brooklyn.
As the bus moves from north to south, the store signs change from English to Arabic to Hebrew to Cyrillic and the passengers’ clothing changes as well. In the same way, depending on where you are along the route, people of different ethnic groups are constantly mixing.
A single bus trip reveals an incredible spectacle of everyday multicultural life.
This was the inspiration for the idea of the project: to produce a series of observations of people in their normal daily lives with each individual also reflecting their own personal world.
Biography:
Marcella Fierro was born in Verona in 1974, she moved to Bologna in 1993 to attend a theater set design course at the Academy of Fine Arts, during which a passion for photography was born while partaking a darkroom course.
Her professional background began as an assistant to several photographers working in the field of advertising photography, where she learned studio photography techniques.
Currently she works as a professional photographer in her own studio specializing in still life, portrait photography and furniture. She regularly collaborates with advertising agencies and private companies. Marcella Fierro’s artistic activity has always flanked her commissioned commercial work, where quality and creative research are the predominant elements of her photography she has conducted over the years.