Alessandro Visconti Photography

I started working in photojournalism in New York City, from 2006 to 2010. During those years, I studied architecture photography in the class of Erietta Attali at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University in 2007, and attended continuing education courses in digital photography, large format photography and marketing of photography at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in 2008/2009. In 2007, I became a contributing photographer for Getty Images, with over 2,350 images in the Getty archive as of today. Through my collaboration with Getty Images, his pictures have been published worldwide for clients such as Forbes, Penguin Group USA and Random House.

After my return in Europe in 2010, I focused on storytelling through fictional photo stories inspired by the cinematography of the past, especially the masterworks of Italian Neorealism (Pasolini, Visconti and Rossellini), and of the Film Noir.

In 2013, I started the project "The Visual Orchestra - Storytelling through Music and Photography" with maestro and composer Alessandro di Puccio.

The primary inspiration for my most recent photography work comes from the world of cinema. I deconstruct the iconography of memorable movie masterpieces, from Rosselini's neorealism to Fritz Lang's noir, and reassemble them to create my own, evocative photo stories.

From the world of cinema I borrow my passion for elaborate stage sets, dramatic narratives and expressive characters. In my photo stories, I convey emotionally charged images that look like as if they were stills taken out of a movie. Each photo story is made of around 30-40 uniquely composed images. Each of these "movie stills", despite being part of a larger narrative, can be viewed as a work of art in its own right, and condenses the experience of a long and complex creative process, in which stage set, composition, lightning, costumes and the human figure all interact with each other to deliver a story.

My set locations are dense with decadent atmosphere and theatrical flair. I post-process my photos to give them the charm and the patina of real film. My style fits into the genre of "cinematic" photographers like Alex Prager, Formento & Formento, Lise Sarfati. With these artists I share the attention for mood and lightning, the love for dramatic action, and...