Giorgio Galimberti was born into the profession and uses black and white photos to visualise a tale of the city, the story generated by leisurely observation, thereby underscoring the intrinsic beauty around us.
Giorgio Galimberti was born into the profession and uses black and white photos to visualise a tale of the city, the story generated by leisurely observation, thereby underscoring the intrinsic beauty around us.Tracce urbane (urban traces) is the name of the photographic project of Giorgio Galimberti, young photographer with a surname renowned in the Italian photography tradecraft. A photography devotee since he was a child, a passion that he is also passing on to his own son Tommaso, over the years he has refined his own personal visual narrative, whose balanced strength he shares with us in the series of shots called: “La città che sale” (The rising city). Photos he took in Milan on his way to Expo 2015 - the event that completely changed the city's skyline, as well as how residents and tourists actually perceive Milan.
Despite the title that in some ways references Street Photography, the images of Giorgio Galimberti are not stories of urban routine. Indeed, his photography has nothing to do with snatching moments from passers-by or buildings, instead he shows us structured, elegant compositions. He is assisted in this by his decision to use black and white photography, which visually emphasises everything around us. Actually, Giorgio Galimberti uses black and white like a mathematical formula where minus and minus makes plus. And in Tracce urbane the same thing happens - by removing the colour he removes distractions, all to the advantage of a calmer contemplation of the image, enabling us to see those details that would otherwise be blurred by the noise of the colour.
So when the photographer removes his possibility to manipulate the image with chromatics, he focuses his attention - and therefore the viewer's attention - on the geometry and elegance of the photograph. All this conceptual thought leads to balanced shots where black and white expresses the aesthetic value of the urban environment: the consummate stage setting for our contemporaneousness.
So, we get into the Cinquecento with Giorgio Galimberti - which he photographed - and we allow ourselves to be driven on a slow, leisurely journey to pick up on those urban traces, with their timeless beauty, that he uncovered in his Milan. So, along the same lines as slow food, we can here enjoy a “slow view”.
Christiane Bürklein (@chrisbuerklein)
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