about
About Me
Nicolò Visentini
Photography is my therapy.
The click of the shutter is my search for happiness.
The photographs I have enclosed on this site are a part of those taken in over thirty years of photographic activity
About a year ago I decided I wanted to show the work I have done and one of the ways to make myself known is precisely my site. At the same time I decided to travel in order to be able to document, in a broader manner, what I wanted to capture through the lens of my camera.
Taking pictures has always made me happy, the cure for a difficult day or a sad period has always been to take the camera and maybe take a decent photo.
My photographic journey began when I was eighteen. Over the years I set up my own darkroom and began printing black and white. I then moved to a medium format but the transition to large format with a view camera (monorail) and portable Bowens studio strobe lights was an important step in my understanding of light. I photographed professionally with this format in London
I am based in Italy in the most eccentric place, Venice
My mind works
in black&white and on film
The cameras I use are:
The places I love:
Venice
Rome
London
Portogruaro
Barbados
quotes
The words of the masters
What photography reproduces infinitely only happens once.
I really believe there are things nobody would see if i didn’t photograph them.
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
I’m always looking outside, trying to look inside. Trying to say something that is true. But maybe nothing is really true. Except what’s out there. And what’s out there is always changing.
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
One doesn’t stop seeing. One doesn’t stop framing. It doesn’t turn off and turn on. It’s on all the time.
inspiration
Henri Cartier-Bresson
The great master for me has always been Henri Cartier-Bresson. I have long admired his choice of subjects, his flawless framing, and his uncanny ability to capture the ‘decisive moment.’ There is an elegance and a certain weightlessness in his images, achieved with a remarkable speed of execution.
My foundation is deeply rooted in the masters of monochrome: Man Ray, Alfred Stieglitz, Tina Modotti, Robert Doisneau, Robert Frank, Jeanloup Sieff, Ansel Adams, Robert Capa, Sebastião Salgado, Susan Meiselas, Lisetta Carmi, and Diane Arbus (as you can tell, my heart belongs to black and white!).
However, my gaze is equally shaped by the contemporary mastery of Steve McCurry, Annie Leibovitz, Cindy Sherman, and Davide Monteleone.
When it comes to the printed word, the photobook that resonates most deeply with me is REQUIEM (Edited and Designed by Mark Holborn, Pascale Hutton, and Sheridan Hall). It is a book of powerful, haunting imagery dedicated to the 135 photographers of various nations who died or disappeared while covering the wars in Indochina, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. Their lives are honored here through the work they left behind.
Another essential reference in my visual journey is ‘Café Lehmitz’ by Anders Petersen. I am deeply drawn to the raw intimacy of his work; it is a masterpiece of human connection where the camera becomes invisible. His ability to blend into the environment and capture the authentic, unfiltered soul of his subjects is a constant source of inspiration for my own approach to photographing people.
Contact
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