Mike Walms

I was 12 when my father gifted me with a Rolleiflex and since then I've never leaved photography.

Life is extraordinary per se, and everything we do or surround us is worth a picture.
The world around us, often made of quite common and trivial objects, can be transformed in extraordinary through photography. Things of everyday life become the subject, the "something" in the image; but as we usually neglect these things, in the frenzy of everyday life, we automatically don't give them credit as subjects worth of the attention of art. With photography these common things undergo a conceptual alteration; through photography issues of daily and ordinary life become empowered with visual meaning that goes beyond their daily function or existence.

I wander with my camera and excite to discover how we live, what humans built, the good and also the bad of an ordinary life.

University of Padova

Palazzo del Monte di Pietà - Padova - 2007
Pitigliano Arte in Vicolo - Pitigliano - 2011
National Geographic Photo Contest 2013 - Editorial Selection