TITLE: Friday 13

My girlfriend and I took "the last legal walk on Friday the 13th". From Monday also our Tuscan area returns to being the "red zone", the territory with the maximum restrictions.
I brought the camera with me thinking that it would be interesting to immortalise Friday 13 of 2020, who knows, maybe something "normal" happens, seen all of 2020, what is absurd has become the new normal .. Maybe on the most famous day for the "bad luck" happens just the opposite, that luck arrives! Somehow it was like that, in the end I took home some really nice photos!
The historic center of our city had changed its appearance, it was different, unusual .. It had taken on a harsher Nordic air, foggy and cold, at the same time also mysterious and fascinating.

AUTHOR: Josip Miskovic (Italy)

I was born in 1982 in Bosnia and, following my studies and various travels, I moved to Italy - to Tuscany, specifically - where I still live.
After working for several years in the entertainment industry I decided to pursue my passion for photography, a field I have always had a great fascination for, eversince my training in painting and set design.
As a self-taught photographer I tried to develop my own poetic language, which might be able to capture the ultimate essence of reality. Photography interests me as long as it tells something that requires the photographer to be open-minded and to reflect on a peculiar face, on mysterious structures, on people's stories, and on hidden fragments of human intimacy.
I received various international awards and recognitions: In November 2020 i was awarded by Dan Burkholder as a first place of NYC4PA photo contest, In the last 4 years I also won first place for three times in "Shoot the frame" and, after that, another first place in Photo Crowd’s "Amateur photographer-sigma"; first place in the black & white category of “I shot it” photography competition, second place as nature photographer in the "Trans-natura" photography competition. Many times I was mentioned and commended in various competitions such as "Sony world photography contest", "Ipa", "Nd", "Monochrome awards".
My most recent achievement was first place in the black & white category of “I shot it” photography competition.
In February 2020 I launched "Galleria Ambigua" in the historic city center of Arezzo (in Tuscany). It is a contemporary art gallery and a cultural space, of which I am co-director and founder.