ABOUT

— The decay photographer —

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[…]”Oh my homeland, so beautiful but lost,

Oh remembrace so beloved, but so painful

Golden harps inspiring the Great poets

Why are you so silent and abandoning yourself to tears?

Rekindle memories in our hearts

tell us again about our glorious past”[…]

I have always loved the Italian Risorgimento and I get particularly excited when I hear the “Va, pensiero” by Giuseppe Verdi which is a lyric from the Nabucco’s play.

These verses belong to the historical period of the unity of Italy and the great patriots: there was a mature feeling of revenge that was so pressing to bring back the ancient pride for a land rich in artistic and cultural wonders refined by centuries of history.

They have inspired me to carry on over the years my project based on old Italian architectural beauties in decline; I found them perfect to express the feeling of loss of an architectural historical heritage like the Italian one: an ode to raise and spread again the taste of art and beauty that has always marked us to the whole world.

My palaces seek revenge not against a foreign occupier but against carelessness and inclement time.

Many of these places, in fact, belong to that historical period and, in my fantasy, are as if they were narcissistic entities destined for oblivion in search of someone able to convey their lost glories for the last time.

Even the challenge of searching for these places that are difficult to access and hidden from most people feeds my sense of adventure and my passion for photography.

So I combine in a single recipe the common components in my way of photographing: adventure, architecture, technique and aesthetics … above all aesthetics.

Aesthetics as a search for a visual impact that strikes and emotions at first glance, far from a certain type of conceptual photography, through the use of light and a compositional construction studied of the image, not through hermetic captions.

I felt that something was missing anyway, the secret ingredient to distinguish myself from other explorers and photographers.
 
The secret ingredient was Caravaggio, “the first photographer”.
 
The great Italian artist used marginalized subjects of society, such as old beggars and prostitutes, and then glorified them in transpositions of saints and madonnas. And even his still lifes showed fruits in the advanced ripening phase, with atmospheres of autumn decay.
But it is his technique that has become legendary, with his way of mastering light with high contrasts of light and shadows.
 
My subjects, as decrepit as those of Caravaggio, are inspired by him coming to almost assume the quality of a painting, transforming something decadent and inanimate in a work where the harmony between shadows and lights arouses in the viewer discordant emotions between melancholy and wonder, caused by an ancient beauty disrupted by time.

[…]”Oh mia Patria, così bella ma perduta,
Oh ricordo così caro, ma così doloroso.
Arpa d’ oro ispiratrice dei grandi Poeti,
Perché taci e ti abbandoni al pianto?
Riaccendi nel nostro cuore i ricordi,
Parlaci ancora della nostra Storia gloriosa!”[…]

Ho sempre amato il Risorgimento italiano ed in particolar modo mi emoziono quando sento il “Va, pensiero” di Giuseppe Verdi, lirica contenuta nell’opera teatrale del Nabucco.
 
Quei versi appartengono al periodo storico dell’unità d’Italia e dei grandi patrioti: nell’aria era maturo quel sentimento di rivalsa che tanto premeva a far riemergere l’antico orgoglio per una terra ricca di meraviglie artistiche e culturali, affinate da secoli di storia.
 

Essi mi hanno ispirato a portare avanti negli anni il mio progetto fotografico basato su antiche bellezze architettoniche italiane in decadenza; esprimono la sensazione di perdizione di un patrimonio storico architettonico come quello italiano, un’ode al risollevarsi e ritrasmettere al mondo intero il gusto dell’arte e del bello che ci ha sempre contraddistinto.

I miei palazzi non cercano rivalsa contro un occupante straniero ma contro l’incuria ed il tempo inclemente.

Molti di questi luoghi, infatti, appartengono proprio a quel periodo storico e, nella mia fantasia, è come se fossero delle narcisistiche entità destinate all’oblio in cerca di qualcuno in grado di trasmettere per un’ultima volta i loro fasti perduti.

Anche la sfida nella ricerca di questi luoghi difficilmente accessibili e nascosti ai più alimenta il mio senso d’avventura e la mia passione fotografica.

Così riunisco in un’unica ricetta le componenti comuni nel mio modo di fotografare: avventura, architettura, tecnica ed estetica…soprattutto estetica.
 
Estetica come ricerca di un impatto visivo che colpisca ed emozioni al primo sguardo, lontana da un certo tipo di fotografia concettuale, attraverso l’uso della luce ed una costruzione compositiva studiata dell’immagine, non tramite ermetiche didascalie.
 

Nella mia iniziale ricerca mancava ancora l’ingrediente segreto per distinguermi dagli altri esploratori e fotografi.

L’ingrediente era Caravaggio, il primo “fotografo”.
 
Il grande artista italiano utilizzava soggetti emarginati della società, come vecchi mendicanti e prostitute, per poi glorificarli in trasposizioni di santi e madonne. Ed anche le sue nature morte mostravano frutti in fase di maturazione avanzata, con atmosfere di decadenza autunnale.
Ma è la sua tecnica che è diventata leggendaria, col suo modo di padroneggiare la luce con alti contrasti di luce ed ombre.
 
I miei soggetti, decrepiti come quelli di Caravaggio, si ispirano a lui arrivando ad assumere quasi la qualità di un dipinto, trasformando qualcosa di decadente ed inanimato in un’opera dove l’armonia tra ombre e luci suscita nello spettatore emozioni discordanti tra il malinconico e la meraviglia, suscitate da un’antica bellezza sconvolta dal tempo.

[…]”Oh my homeland, so beautiful but lost,

Oh remembrace so beloved, but so painful

Golden harps inspiring the Great poets

Why are you so silent and abandoning yourself to tears?

Rekindle memories in our hearts

tell us again about our glorious past”[…]

I have always loved the Italian Risorgimento and I get particularly excited when I hear the “Va, pensiero” by Giuseppe Verdi which is a lyric from the Nabucco’s play.

These verses belong to the historical period of the unity of Italy and the great patriots: there was a mature feeling of revenge that was so pressing to bring back the ancient pride for a land rich in artistic and cultural wonders refined by centuries of history.

They have inspired me to carry on over the years my project based on old Italian architectural beauties in decline; I found them perfect to express the feeling of loss of an architectural historical heritage like the Italian one: an ode to raise and spread again the taste of art and beauty that has always marked us to the whole world.

My palaces seek revenge not against a foreign occupier but against carelessness and inclement time.

Many of these places, in fact, belong to that historical period and, in my fantasy, are as if they were narcissistic entities destined for oblivion in search of someone able to convey their lost glories for the last time.

Even the challenge of searching for these places that are difficult to access and hidden from most people feeds my sense of adventure and my passion for photography.

So I combine in a single recipe the common components in my way of photographing: adventure, architecture, technique and aesthetics … above all aesthetics.

Aesthetics as a search for a visual impact that strikes and emotions at first glance, far from a certain type of conceptual photography, through the use of light and a compositional construction studied of the image, not through hermetic captions.

I felt that something was missing anyway, the secret ingredient to distinguish myself from other explorers and photographers.
 
The secret ingredient was Caravaggio, “the first photographer”.
 
The great Italian artist used marginalized subjects of society, such as old beggars and prostitutes, and then glorified them in transpositions of saints and madonnas. And even his still lifes showed fruits in the advanced ripening phase, with atmospheres of autumn decay.
But it is his technique that has become legendary, with his way of mastering light with high contrasts of light and shadows.
 
My subjects, as decrepit as those of Caravaggio, are inspired by him coming to almost assume the quality of a painting, transforming something decadent and inanimate in a work where the harmony between shadows and lights arouses in the viewer discordant emotions between melancholy and wonder, caused by an ancient beauty disrupted by time.
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- BIOGRAPHY -

Christian Basetti, born in 1979, lives in Milan, deals with commercial interior photography.

Animated by the ever-growing desire for adventure, he transforms great solo trips around the world into an indissoluble combination with landscape and architecture photography.

Since 2015 he has been passionate about the photography of ancient Italian decadent places, not ruins, but places that still preserve elegant architectural and artistic features, the result of the ancient Italian heritage for art and beauty.

He travels assiduously all over the peninsula, feeling the challenge of giving voice to these structures full of melancholic charm as if they were silent narcissistic creatures waiting for someone to express their greatness and lost pride.

 
A secret world existing both in the present and in the past, an out-of-time, suspended dimension. He discovered places sometimes hardly accessible or simply hidden and isolated from the big cities.
 
The search for places and the story to reach such abandoned interiors is an integral part of the challenge, as well as the legal risk of not being discovered in the property not publicly accessible.
 

With a personal style always aimed at aesthetics, he never limits himself exclusively to the documentary aspect, but wants to represent the ancient pride of places destined to be erased by time, inspired by the style of Caravaggio in the representation of the environments.

The general project “Forgotten Art-chitectures” and all derived secondary projects came to life.

In recent years he has appeared in some international publications related to the world of photography, exhibited in various solo and group exhibitions and obtained several awards and awards in prestigious international photographic competitions such as Px3 awards Paris, IPA awards New York, MIFA awards Moscow and TIFA awards Tokyo (check “About” section).

Christian Basetti, classe 1979, vive a Milano, si occupa di fotografia d’interni commerciale.

Animato dal desiderio sempre crescente per l’avventura, trasforma grandi viaggi in solitaria attorno al mondo in un binomio indissolubile con la fotografia di paesaggio e architettura.

Dal 2015 si appassiona alla fotografia di antichi luoghi decadenti italiani, non ruderi, ma luoghi che preservano ancora eleganti tratti architettonici ed artistici, frutto dell’antico retaggio italiano per l’arte ed il bello.

Viaggia assiduamente in lungo ed in largo per tutta la penisola, sente la sfida di dare voce a queste strutture cariche di malinconico fascino come fossero creature narcisistiche silenziose in attesa di qualcuno che esprima la loro grandezza e orgoglio perduto.

Un mondo segreto e silenzioso che esiste sia nel presente che nel passato, in una dimensione sospesa fuori dal tempo.
 
La ricerca dei luoghi é parte integrante della sfida e della storia che sta dietro allo scatto finale, oltre al rischio di non essere scoperti in proprietà non pubblicamente accessibili.
 
Con uno stile personale rivolto sempre all’estetica non si limita mai esclusivamente all’aspetto documentaristico, ma vuole rappresentare l’antico orgoglio di luoghi destinati a essere cancellati dal tempo, ispirandosi allo stile del Caravaggio nella rappresentazione degli ambienti.
 
Il progetto generale “Forgotten Art-chitectures” e tutti i progetti secondari derivati presero vita.
 
Negli ultimi anni è apparso in alcune pubblicazioni internazionali legate al mondo della fotografia, esposto in varie mostre personali e collettive e ottenuto svariati premi e riconoscimenti in prestigiosi concorsi internazionali fotografici come Px3 awards Parigi, IPA awards New York, MIFA awards Mosca e TIFA awards Tokyo (vedi sezione “About”).
 

Christian Basetti, born in 1979, lives in Milan, deals with commercial interior photography.

Animated by the ever-growing desire for adventure, he transforms great solo trips around the world into an indissoluble combination with landscape and architecture photography.

Since 2015 he has been passionate about the photography of ancient Italian decadent places, not ruins, but places that still preserve elegant architectural and artistic features, the result of the ancient Italian heritage for art and beauty.

He travels assiduously all over the peninsula, feeling the challenge of giving voice to these structures full of melancholic charm as if they were silent narcissistic creatures waiting for someone to express their greatness and lost pride.

 
A secret world existing both in the present and in the past, an out-of-time, suspended dimension. He discovered places sometimes hardly accessible or simply hidden and isolated from the big cities.
 
The search for places and the story to reach such abandoned interiors is an integral part of the challenge, as well as the legal risk of not being discovered in the property not publicly accessible.
 

With a personal style always aimed at aesthetics, he never limits himself exclusively to the documentary aspect, but wants to represent the ancient pride of places destined to be erased by time, inspired by the style of Caravaggio in the representation of the environments.

The general project “Forgotten Art-chitectures” and all derived secondary projects came to life.

In recent years he has appeared in some international publications related to the world of photography, exhibited in various solo and group exhibitions and obtained several awards and awards in prestigious international photographic competitions such as Px3 awards Paris, IPA awards New York, MIFA awards Moscow and TIFA awards Tokyo (check “About” section).

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UN ARTISTA... AVVENTURIERO

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AN ARTIST... ADVENTURER

My passion for visual art has been with me for a long time, it’s not a last-minute passion.

In the ’80s in elementary school I drew anything; during the ’90s my adolescence was influenced by Italian hip hop and I became a street artist creator of urban murals; In the 2000s, I attended a comics illustration evening school thinking of that as a job.

But that wasn’t my path.

My way led me to start working in my father’s car body shop, a job far from my ropes but with a salary.

The secure salary for a young guy is tempting and for this reason for a few years I have anesthetized my artistic vein dedicating my energies only to that work.

 

My creativity felt caged, even more broken by the knowledge that the time of our life is limited.

In 2006 I became aware of the art of airbrushing, a rather niche art. Working in a body shop I realized that I could be lucky working already in an environment related to the use of paints. I practiced after the working day at night in the bodywork, in the winter periods all wrapped up in my dresses  because of the night frost (the night was not turned on the heating in the workshop). Already at that time I realized my attitude to challenge environments to achieve what I believed in; something that will represent the norm for my artistic career as a photographer.

I became very good, to the point that I made drawings that looked like photographs. I felt ready to be covered in work as were the tattoo artists.

But I had been, in time, disillusioned.
 

I worked on odd jobs of little importance, there was not much demand, and those few that there were obviously pulling on the price.

I quit after years.

I returned to working life as before, to the dream-killing routine, the dream of waking up in the morning and doing a job I like, a dream all too common to many artists.

I happened to take a solo sightseeing trip to the U.S. in August 2014.

In order not to get bored during my trip I decided to buy an entry level digital camera to document the holiday.

Premise: I had never used a camera in my life, I knew absolutely nothing.
 

The holiday proved illuminating in several respects. Mainly from the spiritual one, I had opened a new world on the concept of travel.It was clear my attitude to be a landscape painter, environments naturally attracted me unlike people.

I came back from this wonderful experience with the artistic spark again lit and alive more than ever.

Inside I knew that the creative vein was going hand in hand with the adventure push. In order to take pictures in particular places I pushed myself into difficulties that did not represent anything in relation to the final result that I hoped to obtain. I risked dying of dehydration in the middle of an American desert lost in nowhere; or of frost sleeping in a cave at zero degrees at 2400 m in the Dolomites, only with clothes and no sleeping bag or tent; I have entered forbidden areas like in skyscraper yards in Dubai. All these stories could be the subject of a book that maybe a day I’ll write.

 
 

The problem is that I could satisfy my travels and my creative vein only in correspondence to the periods of vacation in which I have more time.

But in 2016, a guy in my photo club showed me some photographs of abandoned places. It was one of those things that turns on something dormant within you, an idea and a temptation that begin to come true.

He explained to me all the dynamics of research and access, of the various difficulties from many points of view. The thing fascinated me: it was something niche, exclusive and adventurous, with that hint of danger. And a few hours drive on weekends I could reach such places.

In the years to come I collected a considerable amount of photographic work.

And I still found myself thinking to myself…why not earn or even live with my art? The old desire to leave the workshop came back into my thoughts…

But the difficulties were not lacking.

Every abandoned place could represent a risk even if there is not an equal situation for all, even easy places happen where the only difficulty lies in their discovery. The abandoned places are however kept difficult to access for a matter of security (because of the danger of collapse) or to preserve them from thieves or vandals.

 

The classic physical difficulties: moulds, unreported holes, protruding nails and sudden collapses in the worst cases. And many brambles. Thorny thorns everywhere like last bastions in defense of the place. And pigeon droppings everywhere, sometimes real rugs.

Social dangers instead especially in old factories or public places where abandoned could live or practice shady activities.

Few are willing to wait with me for the evolution of light in the various rooms of a building, overcome by boredom. Often they are fast photographers like Japanese tourists, just happy to capture an experience.
But my determination in the challenge of having an extraordinary shot wins over the rest, as it overcomes the fear that you might have in certain environmental situations, atmosphere gloomy horror movies.

 
The greatest satisfaction up to this point is represented by the mass of awards obtained in prestigious international photo competitions, obtained from the first attempts. Results I never expected to get among tens of thousands of talented photographers from all over the world.
 
Even the exhibitions I organize have always been a sure success with a unanimous positive consensus from visitors and insiders, giving me more and more confidence on the path I have taken.
La passione che ho nei confronti dell’arte visiva mi accompagna da una vita, non è una passione dell’ultimo minuto.
 
Negli anni 80 alle scuole elementari disegnavo qualsiasi cosa; durante gli anni 90 la mia adolescenza era influenzata dall’hip hop italiano e diventai un artista di strada creatore di murales urbani; negli anni 2000 frequentavo una scuola serale di illustrazione per fumetto pensando a quello come lavoro.
 
Ma non era quella la mia strada.
 
La mia strada mi ha portato ad iniziare a lavorare nell’officina di carrozzeria per auto di mio padre, un lavoro lontanissimo dalle mie corde ma con uno stipendio.
 
Lo stipendio sicuro per un giovane è allettante e per questo per qualche anno ho anestetizzato la mia vena artistica dedicando le mie energie solo a quel lavoro.
 
La mia creatività si sentiva ingabbiata, ancor di più affranta dalla consapevolezza che il tempo della nostra vita è limitato.
 
Nel 2006 venni a conoscenza dell’arte legata all’aerografia, un’arte piuttosto di nicchia. Lavorando in una carrozzeria capii che potevo essere fortunato lavorando già in un ambiente legato all’uso delle vernici. Mi esercitavo dopo la giornata lavorativa di notte in carrozzeria, nei periodi invernali tutto imbacuccato per via del gelo notturno (la notte non veniva acceso il riscaldamento nell’officina). Già in quel periodo mi resi conto della mia attitudine a sfidare ambienti per raggiungere quello in cui credevo; cosa che poi rappresenterà la norma per la mia carriera artistica di fotografo.
 
Diventai molto bravo, al punto che realizzavo disegni che sembravano fotografie. Mi sentivo pronto per essere ricoperto di lavoro come lo erano i tatuatori.
 
Ma venni, nel tempo, disilluso.
 
Racimolavo lavoretti saltuari di poco conto, non c’era gran richiesta, e quei pochi che c ‘erano ovviamente tiravano sul prezzo.
 
Mollai tutto dopo anni.
 
Tornai alla vita da operaio come prima, alla routine ammazzasogni, il sogno di svegliarmi al mattino e fare un lavoro che mi piace, un sogno fin troppo comune a molti artisti.
 
Mi capitò di fare un viaggio turistico in solitaria negli Stati Uniti in Agosto 2014. Quei viaggi lunghissimi, on the road con l’auto, all’avventura.
 
Per non correre il rischio di annoiarmi durante il mio viaggio decisi di acquistare una fotocamera digitale entry level per documentare la vacanza.
 

Premessa: non avevo mai usato in vita mia una fotocamera, non sapevo assolutamente nulla.

 
La vacanza si dimostrò illuminante sotto parecchi punti di vista. Principalmente da quello spirituale, mi si era aperto un nuovo mondo sulla concezione di viaggio.Era chiara la mia attitudine ad essere un paesaggista, gli ambienti mi attiravano naturalmente al contrario delle persone.
 
Tornai da questa splendida esperienza con la scintilla artistica nuovamente accesa e viva più che mai.
 
Dentro di me sapevo che la spinta creativa andava a braccetto con la spinta per l’avventura. Pur di scattare foto in luoghi particolari mi spingevo in difficoltà che non rappresentavano nulla in rapporto al risultato finale che speravo di ottenere. Ho rischiato di morire per disidratazione in mezzo ad un deserto americano sperduto nel nulla; oppure di gelo dormendo in una caverna a zero gradi a 2400 m sulle Dolomiti, solo con vestiti e senza sacco a pelo o tenda; sono entrato in zone proibite come dentro cantieri di grattacieli a Dubai. Tutte queste storie potrebbero essere oggetto di un libro che forse un giorno scriverò.
 
Il problema è che potevo soddisfare i miei viaggi e la mia vena creativa solo in corrispondenza ai periodi di vacanza in cui ho più tempo.
 
Ma nel 2016 un ragazzo all’interno del mio circolo fotografico mi fece vedere alcune fotografie riguardanti alcuni posti abbandonati. Fu una di quelle cose che ti accende qualcosa sopito dentro di te, un’idea ed una tentazione che iniziano a diventare realtà.
 
Mi spiegò tutte le dinamiche di ricerca e di accesso, delle varie difficoltà sotto molti punti di vista. La cosa mi affascinava: era qualcosa di nicchia, esclusivo ed avventuroso, con quel pizzico di pericolo. Ed a poche ore di auto nei week end potevo raggiungere tali luoghi.
 
Negli anni a venire raccolsi una mole di lavori fotografici considerevole.
 
E mi ritrovai ancora a pensare fra me…perchè non guadagnare o addirittura vivere con la mia arte? Il vecchio desiderio di mollare l’officina si riaffacciava nei miei pensieri…
 
Ma le difficoltà non mancavano.
 
Ogni posto abbandonato poteva rappresentare un rischio anche se non esiste una situazione uguale per tutti, capitano anche posti facili dove l’unica difficoltà sta nella loro scoperta. I luoghi abbandonati sono comunque mantenuti difficilmente accessibili per una questione di sicurezza (per via del pericolo di crolli) o per preservarli da ladri o vandali.
Le classiche difficoltà fisiche: muffe, buche non segnalate, chiodi sporgenti e crolli improvvisi nei casi più malmessi. E tanti rovi. Rovi rampicanti acuminati ovunque come ultimi baluardi in difesa del luogo. Ed escrementi di piccione ovunque, a volte dei veri e propri tappeti.
 

Pericoli sociali invece soprattutto in vecchie fabbriche o luoghi pubblici dove sbandati potrebbero viverci o praticare attività losche.

 

Pochi son disposti ad attendere con me l’evolversi della luce nelle varie stanze di un palazzo, vinti dalla noia. Spesso son dei fotografi velocisti come turisti giapponesi, contenti solo di immortalare un’esperienza.

Ma la mia determinazione nella sfida di avere uno scatto straordinario vince sul resto, come vince sulla paura che si potrebbe avere in determinate situazioni ambientali, atmosfere tetre da film horror.
 
La più grande soddisfazione fino a questo punto è rappresentata dai riconoscimenti ottenuti in prestigiosi concorsi fotografici internazionali, fin dai primi tentativi. Risultati che mai mi sarei aspettato di ottenere fra decine di migliaia di fotografi bravissimi partecipanti da tutto il mondo.
 

My passion for visual art has been with me for a long time, it’s not a last-minute passion.

In the ’80s in elementary school I drew anything; during the ’90s my adolescence was influenced by Italian hip hop and I became a street artist creator of urban murals; In the 2000s, I attended a comics illustration evening school thinking of that as a job.

But that wasn’t my path.

My way led me to start working in my father’s car body shop, a job far from my ropes but with a salary.

The secure salary for a young guy is tempting and for this reason for a few years I have anesthetized my artistic vein dedicating my energies only to that work.

 

My creativity felt caged, even more broken by the knowledge that the time of our life is limited.

In 2006 I became aware of the art of airbrushing, a rather niche art. Working in a body shop I realized that I could be lucky working already in an environment related to the use of paints. I practiced after the working day at night in the bodywork, in the winter periods all wrapped up in my dresses  because of the night frost (the night was not turned on the heating in the workshop). Already at that time I realized my attitude to challenge environments to achieve what I believed in; something that will represent the norm for my artistic career as a photographer.

I became very good, to the point that I made drawings that looked like photographs. I felt ready to be covered in work as were the tattoo artists.

But I had been, in time, disillusioned.
 

I worked on odd jobs of little importance, there was not much demand, and those few that there were obviously pulling on the price.

I quit after years.

I returned to working life as before, to the dream-killing routine, the dream of waking up in the morning and doing a job I like, a dream all too common to many artists.

I happened to take a solo sightseeing trip to the U.S. in August 2014.

In order not to get bored during my trip I decided to buy an entry level digital camera to document the holiday.

Premise: I had never used a camera in my life, I knew absolutely nothing.
 

The holiday proved illuminating in several respects. Mainly from the spiritual one, I had opened a new world on the concept of travel.It was clear my attitude to be a landscape painter, environments naturally attracted me unlike people.

I came back from this wonderful experience with the artistic spark again lit and alive more than ever.

Inside I knew that the creative vein was going hand in hand with the adventure push. In order to take pictures in particular places I pushed myself into difficulties that did not represent anything in relation to the final result that I hoped to obtain. I risked dying of dehydration in the middle of an American desert lost in nowhere; or of frost sleeping in a cave at zero degrees at 2400 m in the Dolomites, only with clothes and no sleeping bag or tent; I have entered forbidden areas like in skyscraper yards in Dubai. All these stories could be the subject of a book that maybe a day I’ll write.

 
 

The problem is that I could satisfy my travels and my creative vein only in correspondence to the periods of vacation in which I have more time.

But in 2016, a guy in my photo club showed me some photographs of abandoned places. It was one of those things that turns on something dormant within you, an idea and a temptation that begin to come true.

He explained to me all the dynamics of research and access, of the various difficulties from many points of view. The thing fascinated me: it was something niche, exclusive and adventurous, with that hint of danger. And a few hours drive on weekends I could reach such places.

In the years to come I collected a considerable amount of photographic work.

And I still found myself thinking to myself…why not earn or even live with my art? The old desire to leave the workshop came back into my thoughts…

But the difficulties were not lacking.

Every abandoned place could represent a risk even if there is not an equal situation for all, even easy places happen where the only difficulty lies in their discovery. The abandoned places are however kept difficult to access for a matter of security (because of the danger of collapse) or to preserve them from thieves or vandals.

 

The classic physical difficulties: moulds, unreported holes, protruding nails and sudden collapses in the worst cases. And many brambles. Thorny thorns everywhere like last bastions in defense of the place. And pigeon droppings everywhere, sometimes real rugs.

Social dangers instead especially in old factories or public places where abandoned could live or practice shady activities.

Few are willing to wait with me for the evolution of light in the various rooms of a building, overcome by boredom. Often they are fast photographers like Japanese tourists, just happy to capture an experience.
But my determination in the challenge of having an extraordinary shot wins over the rest, as it overcomes the fear that you might have in certain environmental situations, atmosphere gloomy horror movies.

 
The greatest satisfaction up to this point is represented by the awards obtained in prestigious international photo competitions, from the first attempts. Results I never expected to get among tens of thousands of talented photographers from all over the world.

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– IL FOTOGRAFO…D’AMBIENTI –

Come accennato nella biografia, la mia passione fotografica è nata con la fotografia di paesaggio e di architettura. Ho realizzato numerosi progetti fine art anche relativi ai miei viaggi. Soprattutto con l’editing, la fotografia di paesaggio ha rappresentato uno stimolo ad affinare la mia tecnica e capire l’importanza della luce ambientale per saperla imbrigliare e valorizzare al meglio nei miei scatti.

Lavoro anche come fotografo d’interni per il settore commerciale e immobiliare all’interno della provincia di Milano

I miei lavori come fotografo d’interni: https://www.fotografointernimilano.com/portfolio/

Sotto invece i miei lavori sul paesaggio:

www.landscapefineart.it

As mentioned in the biography, my photographic passion was born with landscape photography and architecture. I have made many fine art projects also related to my travels. Especially with the editing, landscape photography has been a stimulus to refine my technique and understand the importance of environmental light to know how to harness and enhance it in my shots.

I also work as an interior photographer for the commercial and real estate sector within the province of Milan

My works as an interior photographer:

https://www.fotografointernimilano.com/portfolio/

Below some works you can visit on

www.landscapefineart.it

 

As mentioned in the biography, my photographic passion was born with landscape photography and architecture. I have made many fine art projects also related to my travels. Especially with the editing, landscape photography has been a stimulus to refine my technique and understand the importance of environmental light to know how to harness and enhance it in my shots.

I also work as an interior photographer for the commercial and real estate sector within the province of Milan

My works as an interior photographer:

https://www.fotografointernimilano.com/portfolio/

Below some works you can visit on

www.landscapefineart.it

 

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