ContrastoBooks

12 x 10 1/2"
30 x 26 cm
120 pages
65 b/w photographs
hardback with jacket

in lingua inglese

English texts

A unique nighttime vision of the Venetian lagoon, between a theatrical Venice and the «cinematic» Marghera, is the subject for this new collection from Luca Campigotto. The photographer juxtaposes the familiar images of a «tourist’s» Venice with a noirish perception of the Marghera zone, an industrial district of docks and commerce, rarely visited by outsiders. Campigotto is renowned in Italy for his landscape photography -- here he treats landscapes as if they were massive theatre sets.


After a degree in History, Campigotto started his career as a photographer, dedicating himself to social photographic essays and to landscape photography. He has been exhibitioned in both Italy and abroad and his work is included in numerous private and public collections.

But I believe that my images want to speak of places without time, or where time has stopped. Perhaps, a desperate and almost unconscious attempt to take possession of eras in which it was not possible to live. Things sought out in books, or in films. As though to hold onto something that we cannot have. But if you look at the photographs, especially the souvenir pictures, basically it is just this that happens: we look at things and persons that we cannot get back. I believe that photography is the supreme tool of nostalgia.

Luca Campigotto