Perspectives/Margins
Mattia Marzorati, the photographer living in Sirmione presents his projects and talks with Francesca Roman, journalist
Perspectives/Margins
Mattia Marzorati, the photographer living in Sirmione, presents his projects and talks with Francesca Roman, journalist
Friday 18 October, 6:00 pm, Hotel Catullo, Piazza Flaminia 7, Sirmione
Book a place at: Perspectives/Margins
“The final outcome is not the cataloging of a territory, the objective rendering of reality, the romantic languor of the journey, the formally impeccable fresco, but rather the desire to enter into a global relationship with the outside world, to seek adequate ways of representing it, to return images, data, figures, clues so that photographing the world is also a way to understand it.”
(Luigi Ghirri, Nothing Ancient Under the Sun)
Photography not as a simple tool of documentation, but as a means to understand the world. Mattia Marzorati himself chose Luigi Ghirri‘s quote to describe his approach to photography, which fully embodies this vision: a poetics that does not limit itself to cataloging what it sees, but explores new forms of representation, capable of restoring the complexity of reality.
On Friday 18 October, at the Hotel Catullo, the photographer protagonist of the Sirmione Photo Residency 2024 will talk with the journalist Francesca Roman, recounting his poetics through his past projects, including La terra dei buchi and revealing some details of Venatùra, the project he is carrying out for the Sirmione Photo Residency: an unprecedented look at local nature, told in an ideal mosaic that bears witness to its beauty and fragility.
The meeting will be an opportunity to explore Marzorati’s artistic path, his sensitivity to environmental issues and his ability to use photography to go beyond the image, aiming to capture the profound interactions between man, territory and nature.
Mattia Marzorati Cantù (1992). After several experiences in the field of international cooperation and development, in 2015 he began working with photography in Peru, focusing on social and environmental issues. He studied photography in Granada where he created the project Dietro le quinte. Since 2017 he has published various reports in Italian and foreign media and collaborates with various NGOs. He works on various social issues, especially related to migration, in Uganda, Lebanon, Bulgaria, Iran and Greece. Between 2019 and 2021 he developed the project La terra dei buchi, focusing on environmental issues and land exploitation in Lombardy. The project was published by the Seipersei publishing house and won the RESET prize of Sistema Festival Fotografia. Numerous exhibitions and screenings of his works in galleries and museums, including the Museion in Bolzano, Athens Photo Festival, Photoszene Köln, Brighton Photo Fringe, Photo Vogue Festival.
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