CLOROFILLA

As landscape is increasingly consumed as image, pre-seen, pre-filtered, optimised for digital circulation, Clorofilla looks for something else: not a new image of landscape, but a different possibility of encounter.

The project begins with places that have no exceptional qualities. Not spectacular, not remote, not chosen for what they represent. In these ordinary settings, a gaze shaped by portraiture finds presences: quiet figures, sometimes ambiguous, occasionally unsettling. Not characters, not stories, but something that precedes narrative and resists immediate identification.

Infrared is not a technique applied to this gaze. It is the language in which the gaze takes form. It does not transform the landscape into something other than itself; it suspends the habits of seeing. What surfaces in the images belongs neither to invention nor to effect: it is a presence already written into the places, one that ordinary visual culture tends to leave in the background. Clorofilla moves within this threshold.

Not to reveal a hidden world, but to return attention to what continues to exist before being recognised, classified, or consumed as image.

The Clorofilla project received second place in the Fine Art / Other category at the International Photography Awards 2025 (IPA).

This year’s competition saw nearly 14,000 entries from 100 countries, reviewed by a distinguished panel of internationally renowned photography experts.

In the July/August issue of Tutti Fotografi, you’ll find an article I wrote in which I share the methods and technical choices behind infrared photography, a key aspect of the work I’ve been developing through Clorofilla.

The final part of the piece also includes a section dedicated to the project, with images of selected works.

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