Artist presentation

Paolo

Profile

I live in Milan, where I was born in 1961. I studied business administration and always worked for international consultancy firms. Photography always played a parallel and essential role, deployed through passion, dedication and fun. Throughout the years I attended some workshops, including a one-week experience with Andreas Bitesnich about nude.

The backbone of my work consists of two elements. Firstly, the combination between the search for different themes and languages and the focus on the connection between reality and its features, particularly for those apparently concealed but revealing, regardless of subject: a person, an object, a scene. Secondly, the attempt to connect to facts and tangible issues, also in those photographs which are seemingly far from sheer reality. Everything is thought to preserve the real essence of photography and fulfil its nature: capturing something which was there - like all of us.

In addition to photography, I am a passionate writer.

Other Projects

Consistently with Worldsamerica, other works of mine share the search for the most appropriate photographic language from time to time: from the conceptual project Surfacex now being exhibited in Milan (including a photographic book) to the street project Paesaggio Urbano or the studies on movement of Koi.

Exhibitions and Publications

Surfacex: Opificio della Fotografia | Spazio Tadini (Milan, 2025). Made4Art (Milan, 2024). L'Oeil de la Photographie (2023). Inner Solo Exhibition (Lecce, 2022). un'fair (Milan, 2022). MIA Fair (Milan, 2021). Milan Affordable Art Fair (2020). Amsterdam AAF (2019). Milan Photo Festival (2019). London Battersea AAF (2019). RB Fineart Gallery (Milan, 2018).

Urban Landscape: MSP - Milano Sunday Photo (2025). Tutti Fotografi (february 2025). MSP (2024).

Koi: L'Oeil de la Photographie (2025).

Worldsamerica: L'Oeil de la Photographie (2021). Amsterdam AAF (2019).

Nude studies: several locations in the Milan area.

Artist statement

Reality shows itself through limitless ways. Thus, each artist tries to intercept it by exploring the most adequate language. My curiosity has also spread over artificiality which pervades our lives. For us - Europeans, a bit refined, yet outdated at the same time - it is easy to target some simple and desperate expressions of the American way of life. “Worldsamerica” collections – hereby represented by a selec-tion from the collections “Cars” and “Places” - summarize some of these aspects.

In particular, when it is possible to compare – within few miles – the dreams enclosed in a vintage car gathering and abandonment of villages which spring up and fall down because of business: yesterday-not there / today-existing / tomorrow-dead. Once again, the language of photography adapts to its scenes: colours and full immersion against smoothness and distance. Fake colours for possible fake dreams