Bones project is inspired by the ‘straight photography‘ movement of Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston and Ansel Adams. Subjects are photographed at a close distance, on an overall blank or empty background, to show their shape and structure. The beauty of the subject itself makes the picture. All photos of this project are taken with the…
The work at Lüben 2017 This is a series of salt prints made during the 14th Internationale Werkstattwoche of Lüben, Wittingen, Germany The theme of the 14th Internationale Werkstattwoche Lüben 2017 was “Reduce”. The entire body of work had to be produced on location or surroundings of the Lüben village, taking advantage of the available…
Former Montevivo plant in Empoli. Architectural photography project on abandoned industrial buildings in Florence and outskirts from an idea by Michele Pero and made together with the students of the professional academic classes of photography and multimedia 2016-2017 of the school TheDarkroom Academy Florence. All pictures have been taken with 4×5″ to 5×7″ cameras on…
Former tram power plant in Florence. Architectural photography project on abandoned industrial buildings in Florence and outskirts from an idea by Michele Pero and made together with the students of the professional academic classes of photography and multimedia 2016-2017 of the school TheDarkroom Academy Florence. All pictures have been taken with 4×5″ to 5×7″ cameras…
Former Campolmi factory in Florence. Architectural photography project on abandoned industrial buildings in Florence and outskirts from an idea by Michele Pero and made together with the students of the professional academic classes of photography and multimedia 2016-2017 of the school TheDarkroom Academy Florence. All pictures have been taken with 4×5″ to 5×7″ cameras on…
Decadence project, made during the Photography and Multimedia academic year 2016-2017, together with the students of with my class by TheDarkroom Academy and exhibited at Caffè Letterario Le Murate Firenze in June 2017 during the collective final exhibition “Lo stato delle cose“. This project puts together black and white large format 4×5″ and 5×7” film…
I was first contacted for this project by Leonardo Magnani, President of the no-profit Associatzione Cultura della Pace di Sansepolcro (Association Culture of Peace of Sansepolcro). He told me: ‘The Albanian student society of the University of Pisa is trying to organise an exhibition on Kosovo.’ – ‘Please, not on Kosovo’ – I thought to…
HOW IT ALL STARTED Germany, Italy and Japan. Three countries sharing the same fate, at the end of World War II. Three countries destroyed to the ground. The 80s. Germans arrive in mass in Italy for vacations. Their pockets are stiffed of money. They seem can buy the World. They look aliens to the most…
In 1996 Michele Pero meets for his first time the Albanian people on their own land and he discovers a reality so far from the one depicted by the overseas media.