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In Focus - Luigi Ghirri

Luigi Ghirri an italian photographer who uses their camera to examine the relationship of the landscape and the everyday. His work often finds itself caught between the lines of fiction and reality as a result of his curious aptitude and intellectual imagination. Ghirri photographs mundane minor places near his home for the process of self discovery, understanding that the minor places are aspects we as a collective enjoy passively. The camera is strategically used to isolate fragments of his familiar landscape to charge a new meaning into his imagery, bound in distinct framing and visual puns. The photographs serve as documentation in the search for his own identity.

His work doesn't perceive itself as photography, it feels stuck, bound by its apparatus. The work has its appendages in elements of art, collage and photography all bound in a postcard shape. A symphony of simple complexities hidden behind aspects of the overlooked.

Luigi was also a writer alongside a photographer. He found himself aligned with the writings of Italo Calvino who aimed to

“give speech to that which has no language”.

All images belong to https://matthewmarks.com/artists/luigi-ghirri