Christian Basetti

I'm a fine art photographer, born in 1979 and living in Milan.
My passion springs from landscape and architectural photography.

From 2016 my adventurous spirit pushed me to discover the beauty of the exploration of abandoned places

Although I have photographed European buildings, I have focused on the forgotten beauties of my country, Italy, sharing their ancient pride.

These places, often difficult to access and find, represent both a discover and immortalize challenge about places that contain the passage of time.
Hidden and rare places that could disappear by the hands of the wear and tear of time, or demolitions that will erase their original melancholy history.

Explorations in complete solitude. Like a climber on inaccessible peaks, when you are alone your emotions are amplified and you feel as an anachronistic ghosts in a place where no one should be, an intruder who has entered to upset the ancient rest of a sleeping palace.

Palaces that, in my fantasy, are as if they were narcissistic entities destined for oblivion in search of someone able to convey their lost glories for the last time.

I combine in a single recipe the common components in my way of photographing: adventure, architecture, technique and ...

2022

- Solo exhibition in Historic Center in Urbino (Italy)

- BAF – art fair in Bergamo (Italy)

- Solo exhibition in “Sala Veratti”, historic centre of Varese, civic museum

2021

- Annual PX3 Exhibition- PX3 awards winners 2021, Paris

– Paviart – art fair exhibition 2021 (Pavia, Italy)

– PhotoPro Studios Moscow – winners of Mifa awards 2021 Moscow

– Solo exhibition at “ Galleria d’arte Quadrifoglio ” – Rho, (Milan)

- Solo exhibition at “Sala Veratti”, storic center, Varese