CLOROFILLA

Clorofilla is an artistic research using infrared photography to investigate landscape as a perceptual construction. By recording a portion of the spectrum invisible to the human eye, the images introduce a gap between direct experience and representation, turning real places into ambiguous spaces suspended between document and interpretation.

The work stems from an interest in how technology alters our perception of the real, and challenges the notion of photography as a neutral record of the world. Infrared is not used as a merely aesthetic device, but as a critical tool — one that makes visible the process by which every image selects, transforms, and interprets what we see.

Natural elements retain a recognizable dimension, yet are traversed by a tension that shifts how they are read: familiar surfaces reveal an unfamiliar structure, light behaves in unexpected ways, and the landscape ceases to be simply a subject to be depicted, it becomes the site where the very mechanism of vision is made apparent.

At a time when synthetic images and digital simulations multiply the ambiguities of representation, Clorofilla works on something different: to show that even the most seemingly direct photograph already contains a transformation of the visible.

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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