Promenades

Walking the streets of European cities; Venice and Saint Petersburg, I was presented with a new challenge, capturing cities from the ground close up. With dramatic facades towering above I decided to mirror the flat confrontational buildings with my work. Removing perspective and everyday life the photographs become flat and focused purely on the extraordinary architecture of the city.

This series exhibited as part of "Romantic Cities" in Paris in 2010 is a matter of architecture, colour and light and the atmosphere they together create. This is central to photography for me.

Villes Vestige - Havana, Naples

My passion for photography has been life long and I have always found inspiration in the urban landscapes. Through my practice I capture the essence of a city; its history, architecture and life. I learned to explore the cities from every angle, scaling to the top of construction sites to capture the skylines, architecture and the melee of everyday life.

It wasn't until the creation of my series shot in Havana that I became fascinated with the view point crossroads provided, the diverse crumbling building facades, vibrant life and vintage cars that could be seen at every angle create a snapshot of a city frozen in the past. The crossroads presented a way for me to capture many angles at once creating huge visual depth and hinting at the stories behind the people walking through the shot unaware of one another.

Each city has led me to discover different view points particular to its architecture and for me my photography is about finding the angle that portrays not just the visuals of the city but its personality and spark.

The large scale format lets the viewer lose themselves in the artwork; it's depth, stories and colours.

White Silence - Exhibition on Carrara's Marble Quarries

Private view: Sat 12th Nov 4-7pm Luigi Visconti Solo Show "White Silence" 3-17th November with a Private View on 12th November 4-7pm.

Italian Photographer Luigi Visconti has created a new series of photographs based around the serene yet powerful quarries of Carrara, Tuscany. Luigi will be showcasing first seen images of the Quarries alongside his cityscape photography of New York, Cuba and Hong Kong.

Marble quarries Photographies - White Silence at Box Galleries in Chelsea, London

This serie about marble quarries is a relatively recent development with the major influence of photographers like Burtynsky, being the starting point.

I went for this new project to the marble quarries of Carrara and Pietrasanta (Tuscany) dreaming of Michelangelo. Some of these quarries were at almost two hours walk from any accessible roads. During these journeys I was so impressed by the spiritual silence, broken up only by the echoes of my camera’s shutter, and so enthusiastic about the white and immaculate marble of these quarries, among the oldest and most prestigious, that I returned several times to try to catch the perfect light.