Francesco Mussida

Francesco Mussida is an Italian photographer with deep knowledge in silver gelatin printing.

His works on plants reflect deep attention to the way nature expresses its language through forms, movements and propagations.
For these works he chose the form of the portrait as a method of all-encompassing observation towards light, subject and air. Each portrait is made in the field with the precise intention of respecting environmental influences.

He chose a totally analog approach, using exclusively vintage cameras and following the methods of manual processing of film development and printing.

The mission behind this choice is to preserve a natural space between observer and observed subject, avoiding any kind of digital interpretation and always keeping involved natural variables such as light, time and emotions.

Since 2016 he has been teaching film development and analog printing techniques and runs a blog entirely dedicated to analog culture

Self-taught