Andrea Celli
Since I used to be a baby I’ve had the fervour and the privilege of being involved with Nature. The summers spent within the Apennine woods with my grandparents first and with the CAI (Italian Alpine Membership) afterwards have left an indelible mark on my soul. The arrival of the photographic ardour throughout my college research allowed me to weld this union.
Talking of my pictures, I wish to name myself a detail-oriented panorama photographer. That is how I interpret my pictures, making an attempt to concentrate to the little issues earlier than I even immerse myself in greater eventualities. I began this journey in 2012, ranging from the basic Tuscan views spending first years capturing landscapes particularly round Europe.
For some years I’ve been dedicating myself to a extra intimate and aware pictures, taken few kilometers from residence, primarily focused on the central Apennines, removed from the crowded photographic circuits and the long-lasting spots of which Italian territory is abundantly wealthy. I imagine in a extra private and authorial pictures
Michéla Griffith
In 2012 I paused by my native river and every little thing modified. I’ve moved away from what many anticipate pictures to be: my pictures deconstruct the literal and reimagine the subjective, reflecting the curiosity that water has impressed in my observe. Water has been my conduit: it has sharpened my imaginative and prescient, given me permission to experiment and continues to introduce me to new methods of seeing.
In November 2021, Andrea Celli wrote about his long-standing relationship with the Casentinesi Forests Nationwide Park within the coronary heart of Italy and the way through the Covid19 pandemic, he got here to spend extra time there to the good thing about each his challenge and his photographic observe.
He’s happiest when he feels in concord with nature – within the water, within the snow or inside a forest – and over time his pictures has unsurprisingly moved in direction of a extra intimate model of picture making, typically concentrated within the central Apennines away from the crowded photographic circuits and iconic locations of Italy.
Would you want to start out by telling readers slightly about your self – the place you grew up, what your early pursuits have been, and what you went on to check and do as a profession?
I grew up first in a small city within the hills of Florence after which moved to town after ending my college research. Town gave me the chance to dwell and breathe artwork and wonder in each nook however by no means forgetting the extra naturalistic half exterior the city context.
My research and diploma in structure helped give my eye a sure order, typically geometric. A seek for a sure sense of aesthetic which I additionally regularly discover in my fieldwork and in my pictures.
