Paolo Gasparini

Paolo Gasparini's work has been marked as much by his social commitment and the documentary strength of his images, as by the expressiveness of his compositions and his use of black and white, in an immensely rich range of tonal values. His photographic work takes various forms, such as series, photobooks, photomurals and audiovisuals. In all of them, the images constitute a chronicle of multiple themes and current issues. His photography is not only about deciphering the formal and symbolic aspects of the scenes he captures, but also about evidencing their social and cultural contents, about recognizing the discourses that support them. in this sense, they are images saturated with signs and references, which evoke with their presence a reality that is characterized by summoning heterogeneous and dissimilar spaces. These photographs have the city as their main setting. In them, the camera appears as an explorer capable of discovering among the streets and buildings its most important gestures, its facts and symbols, its ways of life, but also its shadows and dramas, its excesses and futilities. In their reference to the urban phenomenon, they are images that possess a complexity, variety and intensity thanks to which they exhibit a vision in which, from the counterpoint between lights and shadows, the dynamism and fragmentariness of the modern world takes shape.This photographic work is elaborated on the basis of a narrative model, a confluence of gaze and story that brings it close to cinema and is expressed in what Gasparini calls "Fotoracontti" or "Racconti Fotografici", a synthesis of image and narration that allows him to present his series, books and audiovisuals as scenes for a possible experience, or for an opening of our experience to unpublished realities, hidden in everyday life.