URBAN unveils the City and its secrets - vol. 04 by dotART - Art Association Registered office: via del Veltro 30 - 34137 Trieste, Italy Headquarters: via San Francesco 6 - 34133 Trieste, Italy Tel. +39 040 3720617 - info@dotart.it - www.urbanphotoawards.com C.F. 90125960329 Cover photo: Daniele Stefanizzi Graphic design: Studio grafico Stefano Ambroset Š All photos owned by the named photographer
volume 04 2018
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URBAN unveils the City and its secrets Street photography is a form of art that best describes contemporary living. The term “street� indicates a place in general marked by human activity and this publication is specifically dedicated to the City as a place of convergence of numerous aspects of today. The City, its streets, its buildings, its spaces are rich storages of history, of both high and popular culture, social interactions and contradictions. Street photography reproduces moments of absolute reality to which each photographer impresses his own artistic mark. Street photography is a genre able to reveal countless facets of the urban fabric and the lives that inhabit it. Such visual instants often tell more than they show: new aspects of society, moments of real life, secret corners of the City, contrasts and contradictions of modernity, celebrations of beauty or narratives of urban decay. The technique of street photography rests almost entirely on the eye, the timing and the author’s personal sensitivity, which allow him to be there, in the right place, at the right time, to create the image that brings back that fleeting fragment of everyday life. street photographer highlights the unnoticed and makes normality special and unique. Street photography freezes moments of absolute reality in an endless instant and makes such moments become unique, unrepeatable and marked by the also unique and unrepeatable touch of the artist. Little everyday stories condensed into a fraction of a second are able to tell an entire historical period. Such shots are sometimes rich in pathos, sometimes apparently banal but rich in food for thought. The aim of this editorial project dedicated to street photography is to provide the reader with an overview of micro-stories told through images. These authentic and immediate images have in common an element which is either obvious or just hardly visible. The photos all together make up an organic collage that reveals the City and its secrets. The photos that narrate these stories have been selected from the URBAN 2018 ranking. URBAN is an annual international photography competition which gathers thousands of competing photos and hundreds of participants from all over the world. The photographers inserted in this publication use their sensitivity when approaching the protagonists of everyday life.
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URBAN svela la Città e i suoi segreti La street photography - o fotografia di strada - è la forma d’arte che racconta al meglio la contemporaneità. Il termine “street” indica un luogo generico segnato dall’attività umana, e in questo volume si è scelto di soffermarsi in particolare sulla Città, in quanto luogo in cui convergono gli innumerevoli aspetti dell’oggi. La Città, le sue strade, i suoi edifici, i suoi spazi, portano con loro ampie testimonianze di storia, cultura “alta” e popolare, interazioni sociali e contraddizioni. La fotografia di strada riproduce attimi di assoluta realtà, ai quali ogni fotografo imprime una propria cifra artistica. La street photography è un genere in grado di rivelare le infinite sfaccettature del tessuto urbano e le vite che lo popolano. Spesso questi istanti visivi raccontano più di ciò che mostrano: aspetti inediti della società, attimi di vita vissuta, angoli segreti della Città, contrasti e contraddizioni della modernità, celebrazioni della bellezza o narrazioni del degrado urbano. La tecnica della street poggia quasi interamente sull’occhio, sul tempismo e la sensibilità personale dell’autore, che gli permettono di essere lì, nel posto giusto, al momento giusto, per comporre l’inquadratura che restituisce quel fugace frammento di quotidianità. Il fotografo di strada mette in risalto l’inosservato, rende speciale e unica la normalità. La fotografia di strada congela in un istante senza fine attimi di assoluta realtà, unici, irripetibili e contrassegnati dal graffio anch’esso unico e irripetibile dell’artista. Piccole storie quotidiane condensate in una frazione di secondo possono raccontare un intero periodo storico. Scatti talvolta ricchi di pathos, talvolta in apparenza banali ma ricchi di spunti di riflessione. L’obiettivo che si pone questo progetto editoriale dedicato alla street photography è quello di offrire al lettore una serie di micro-storie narrate attraverso le immagini. Le immagini, autentiche e immediate, sono accomunate da un elemento, a volte evidente, altre appena accennato. Tutte assieme danno vita a un collage organico che svela la Città e suoi segreti. Le foto che compongono queste storie sono state selezionate dalla classifica di URBAN 2018, concorso fotografico internazionale che vede ogni anno migliaia di foto in gara e centinaia di partecipanti da tutto il mondo. I fotografi presenti in questo libro utilizzano la loro sensibilità per avvicinarsi ai protagonisti della vita di ogni giorno.
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#01
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L I F E
Antonio Larghi (Italy)
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Giuliano Mazzanti (Italy)
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Riccardo Pesaresi (Italy)
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Mathias Wasik (USA)
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Viet Van Tran (Vietnam)
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Gianni Boradori (Italy)
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Kelly Costantini (Italy)
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Krzysztof Cwik (Poland)
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Giancarlo Rupolo (Italy)
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Giedo Van Der Zwan (Netherlands)
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Roberto Biagi (Italy)
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Stefano Lista (Italy)
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Stefano Lista (Italy)
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JoĂŁo Coutinho (Portugal)
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Andrea Zachrau (Germany)
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Davide Paoli (Italy)
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Leka Huie (Hong Kong)
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Damian Milczarek (Poland)
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Sandro Di Camillo (Italy)
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#02
( E ) M O T I O N
Roy Deba Prasad (India)
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Mauro De Bettio (Italy)
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Roy Deba Prasad (India)
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Massimo Alfano (Italy)
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Silvia Paulin (Italy)
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Alain Schroeder (Belgium)
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Doron Talmi (Israel)
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Roberto Zerbini (Italy)
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Marco Tagliarino (Italy)
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Betty Press (USA)
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Kristin Bedford (USA)
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Giorgia Ivone (Italy)
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Giulio Alesse (Italy)
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Alain Licari (USA)
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Giuseppe Cardoni (Italy)
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Sebastien Durand (France)
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Riccardo Pesaresi (Italy)
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Giancarlo Staubmann (Italy)
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Roberta Grubelli (Italy)
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Mitja Kobal (Slovenia)
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Emanuele Bissoli (Italy)
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Frank Verreyken (Belgium)
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Sophia Beaki (Greece)
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Roberta Grubelli (Italy)
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Gianni Boradori (Italy)
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#03
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SĂŠbastien Leban (France)
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Gianni Boradori (Italy)
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Roy Deba Prasad (India)
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Qui Thinh Tran (Vietnam)
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Marco Di Vittorio (Italy)
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Viraj Bunnag (Thailand)
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Mark Phillips (Great Britain)
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Mauro De Bettio (Italy)
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Jan Bolten (Germany)
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Antonio Tartaglia (Italy)
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Massimiliano Vecchi (Italy)
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Monia Marchionni (Italy)
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Josip Miskovic (Italy)
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Elide Cataldo (Italy)
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Maryse Dardaillon (France)
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Fiorenzo Rosa (Italy)
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Alessandro Marcello (Italy)
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Massimo Alfano (Italy)
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Josip Miskovic (Italy)
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Viet Van Tran (Vietnam)
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Ludovic Le Guyader (France)
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Ignasi Raventos (Spain)
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Eric Davidove (USA)
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Lukasz Zietara (Poland)
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Daniele Bellucci (Italy)
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Marco Tagliarino (Italy)
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Antonio Privitera (Italy)
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Paolo Maggi (Italy)
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Josephine Caruso (Italy)
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Gianni Boradori (Italy)
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Mauro De Bettio (Italy)
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Alain Schroeder (Belgium)
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Anat Shushan (Israel)
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Roy Deba Prasad (India)
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Laura Zulian (Italy)
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Sebastiano Ciancio (Italy)
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Angelo Barbuto (Italy)
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Tristan Lavender (Netherlands)
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Francesco Fredella (Italy)
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Ranu Jain (United Arab Emirates)
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Liliana Ranalletta (Italy)
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Eddie Wexler (USA)
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Guido Caltabiano (Italy)
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Lucia Laura Esposto (Italy)
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David Curtis (Great Britain)
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Attilio Bixio (Italy)
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Florin Flacau (Romania)
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Naoki Fujihara (Japan)
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Marco Tagliarino (Italy)
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Massimo Padoin (Italy)
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Gianni Boradori (Italy)
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Mitja Kobal (Slovenia)
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Lucia Laura Esposto (Italy)
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Josip Miskovic (Italy)
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Rebecca Wiltshire (Australia)
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Andrea Alberti (Italy)
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Giancarlo Staubmann (Italy)
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Fan Li (France)
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Silvio Crisรณstomo (Brazil)
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Tristan Lavender (Netherlands)
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Giulio Fabbri (Italy)
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Roger Grasas (Spain)
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Magda Chudzik (Poland)
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Daniele Rossi (Italy)
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Hanqing Qu (China)
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Christiaan Hart (Hong Kong)
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Celia Ruiz De Castilla (Australia)
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Orlando Morici (Italy)
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Henning S. Pettersen (Norway)
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Nicola Bertellotti (Italy)
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Dimitri Bourriau (France)
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Lydia Ho (Malaysia)
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Dominika Koszowska (Poland)
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Oreste Girotto (Italy)
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Angiolo Manetti (Italy)
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Angiolo Manetti (Italy)
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Roberto Zerbini (Italy)
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Naoki Fujihara (Japan)
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Tristan Lavender (Netherlands)
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Naoki Fujihara (Japan)
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Pedro Luis Ajuriaguerra Saiz (Spain)
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Roberto Corinaldesi (Italy)
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Sergio Aresi (Italy)
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Naoki Fujihara (Japan)
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Marina Koryakin (Israel)
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Roy Deba Prasad (India)
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Sara Jazbar (Italy)
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Roberto Pireddu (Italy)
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E M P T y
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Francesco Canova (Italy)
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Sevil Alkan (Turkey)
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Colin Page (Great Britain)
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Michele Ginevra (Italy)
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Fan Li (France)
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Rudolf Sulgan (USA)
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Rudolf Sulgan (USA)
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Roman Robroek (Netherlands)
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Nicola Bertellotti (Italy)
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Nik Brezginov (Russia)
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Paolo Mangoni (Italy)
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Md Enamul Kabir (Bangladesh)
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Md Enamul Kabir (Bangladesh)
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Valentina Bollea (Italy)
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Olga Kardashova (Russia)
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Corinne Serafini (Italy)
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Doron Talmi (Israel)
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Bart De Bock (Belgium)
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Eric Davidove (USA)
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Max Sturgeon (USA)
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Sergio Redolfi (Italy)
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Diego Di Guardo (Italy)
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Diego Di Guardo (Italy)
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Viet Van Tran (Vietnam)
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Amir Lavon (Israel)
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Giuliano Mazzanti (Italy)
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Mauro De Bettio (Italy)
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Mauro De Bettio (Italy)
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Marina Koryakin (Israel)
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Sara Munari (Italy)
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Mario Filabozzi (Italy)
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Orlando Morici (Italy)
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Harry Aaldering (Netherlands)
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Samuel Dossi (Italy)
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Olgierd Kajak (Switzerland)
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Fiorenzo Rosa (Italy)
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Diego Di Guardo (Italy)
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Sidar Sahin (Great Britain)
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Magda Chudzik (Poland)
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