Mario Giacomelli's gritty and grainy photographs, currently exhibiting at the ATLAS gallery in Dorset Street, not only transport you to Italy's poor south but they open up doors and insights into the simplicity and naturalness of the creative process. An approach often relegated in our digital, megapixel, Photoshop age.
For here is a photographer less preoccupied and constrained by the technicalities of the camera (he once threw away a new camera with it's exposure meter in favour of a point-and-shoot model) but more concerned about capturing what is honest, real and beautiful.
His approach and results are refreshing. The technocrat, may notice that his work is often over exposed, his subjects out of focus and his prints contain spots and hairs. And yet as poetic slices of life, they work! A reminder that life, captured and presented directly in it's essence - and all it's rawness - is more beautiful and moving than anything that glosses over the truth and smoothes over rough edges.
"Mario Giacomelli - Puglia" ATLAS GALLERY 25 March - 16 May, 2009
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