Karim Carella

I began to express myself artistically at the age of seven during primary school by making drawings and small landscape paintings. I maintained my artistic vocation and predilection for the landscape even in my adolescence when I discovered and started using the camera, strongly inspired above all by the majesty of the mountain landscapes that were the protagonists of my summer holidays.

I continued to cultivate my hobby for photography for a long time until as an adult, after twenty years of work as an analyst and head of statistics and market research, I decided to devote myself full time to photography.

I'm a mountain lover but at the same time I'm a man by the sea, so I have portrayed landscapes of various kinds, perfecting over time my self-taught photographic technique thanks to a deep and careful reading of essays and author's texts, as well as a meticulous and scrupulous observation of the techniques of the great contemporary photographic artists.

In the first period of my professional career I found my dimension in figurative, monochromatic landscape photography, in long exposure and with a predominantly square cut. This minimalist and austere style has allowed me to give my compositions a sense of deep stillness and in...

2020 February - Affordable Art Fair, Milan

2014 May - "Assolo" exhibition at MIA art fair, Milan

2013 October - "Assolo" exhibition at Spazioraw gallery, Milan

2013 June - "Image Nation" exhibition at Officine Creative Ansaldo, Milan


2012 October - "Autumn's color" exhibition at Chie Art Gallery, Milan

2012 October - "Omaggio a Giorgio Morandi" exhibition at Wikiarte Gallery, Bologna


2011 March - "Effimeri" exhibition at Choreia Atelier, Bari

2011 August - "Effimeri" exhibition at Galleria Civica of the Majella National Park, Chieti

2011 August - "I notturni di Penna" exhibition at Galleria Civica of the Majella National Park, Chieti