Mirco Lazzari, Stargraph and RTR Sports Marketing launch the first Non Fungible Token dedicated to motorsport photography: art, sports and technology open wide the door to the future.
They are called NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, and they are the answer to a question that has become central in recent years: how do we seal, authenticate, and exchange digital content securely, quickly, and in a shared manner?
Made possible by blockchain, “nifties“-that’s what they’ve also been dubbed-are cryptographic tokens that enable the purchase and unique identification of any type of media, from an image to a song, from a work of art to a video.
Non-fungible tokens are used to create verifiable digital scarcity, unique digital objects such as crypt art, collectibles in digital format, exchangeable and saleable in the digital art market.
They are the new frontier of copyright collecting because of their ability to provide evidence of authenticity and ownership of the digital work.
This intangible but very powerful technological tool, which today is experiencing an extraordinary expansion, now meets the excellence of art sports photography thanks to “The Mirco Lazzari Collection,” the project that unites Mirco Lazzari, Stargraph and RTR Sports Marketing.
As of July 15, 2021, in fact, the following will be available on the Stargraph the first NFTs that the celebrated photographer from Imola wanted to publish in this innovative and compelling format.
Some particular shots will thus become collections, with a limited run of a few, and will collect the best of the motorsport world, from the MotoGP to Formula 1, passing through rally and World Superbike and much more going to compose an unprecedented collection, very precious and able to combine the emotion of art to the extraordinary passion of sport, to the new powerful technologies available today.
This is the first time in our country that photography, sports and the digital world have come together in this way: Mirco Lazzari ‘s NFTs are not simply a glimpse into the future, but rather a concrete tool with which to cement, today, a form of expression and communication that has never been so important.
Since 1989, Mirco Lazzari has been enchanting and telling the world of the slopes through his lens. His is a gaze that is always fresh, different, aiming at a narrative that is more poetry than simple storytelling. His unmistakable style earns him several international awards and recognitions in the top two- and four-wheel series as well as the role of ambassador in the sports sector for Nikon.
They are RTR Sports Marketing and its founder Riccardo Tafà to imagine the union of Lazzari’s spectacular images with the idea of Non Fungible Token: an arc that can only be closed with a partner of great experience and creativity in the world of web and digital marketing.
“We were immediately happy to be part of this project,” -reports Michele Imbimbo, co founder of Stargraph. A project that is able to combine the international ambitions of our company and the best of sports photography, creating a unique product in Italy, which is at the top of tech, sports and art.”
Mirco Lazzari echoes him, “We believe that any digital product has value only if it is filled with meaning that is first and foremost emotional and cultural. Biennial (and nonbiennial) NFTs allow us for the first time in our digital history to crystallize a moment, to make tangible what was previously intangible. But at the base we need content, something that can move feelings and encapsulate a gesture, a special moment.”
The first NFTs of “The Mirco Lazzari Collection” are available in limited edition from Thursday, July 15 at https://nft.stargraph.it/.