08-07-2016

Landscape photography: the face of the landscape

Alberto Barosco is a young landscape photographer who combines portraits and experience as a photo reporter with images of nature, with the goal of revealing the reason for things.



Landscape photography: the face of the landscape
Alberto Barosco is a young landscape photographer who combines portraits and experience as a photo reporter with images of nature, with the goal of revealing the reason for things.

Alberto Barosco is young; and it is his youth that makes him special behind the lens, as he seeks to use photography to discover the reasons for things. After all, what could be fresher and more youthful than wondering why things are the way they are? This is what all young people want to know. But in seeking the answer to the question, Alberto Barosco goes one step farther: a cultural step. He offers a visual explanation for the reason behind things, dressing his images in the local culture, in an expression close to man.
The landscape photographs selected by Alberto Barosco are not just ingenuous reproductions of nature, they are the expression of a four-way relationship: place, the people who live in it, the photographer and the camera. Thoughts leap back and forth between the four, finding narration in the image returned by the photograph: the image of the face of the nature portrayed. And so we might say that this photographer’s landscapes explore places, restoring the identity of the nature they share with man. 
Alberto Barosco’s photographs, whether in colour or in black and white, are not the product of a stroll in nature, but the visual expression of an emotion rooted in his experience as a photo reporter. For what strikes us about his photographs is the human presence, reflected even in the shots with no people in them. That is, man is there, and may be seen even when not clearly present in the photographs. Alberto Barosco sees all his photographs as portraits, sometimes expressly so and other times evoked, in which the human figure is always present before the lens. 
In the end, we might say that Alberto Barosco asks about the reasons for things and seeks the answers in the visual narration itself; and so he finds what he is looking for through his photographs: himself, Alberto Barosco.

Paolo Schianchi

www.albertobarosco.it

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