In other places
Austria, Italy, Spain, United States, 2018-2019
Master thesis for the
Master Iuav in Photography, under the guidance of Stefano Graziani
In other places questions our perception of the idea of nature. Photographs have been produced in places such as natural science museums, botanical gardens, and zoos, where nature is presented as an artifact, thought and built from and to man.
The images portrait this condition between a natural and an artificial setting. The title refers to an elsewhere, built or imagined: it is the story of nostalgia of man for the natural condition, for something archaic of unspecified origin. The intent is to describe how the notion of what we consider 'natural' is always highly filtered, on the footsteps of Werner Herzog (
Fitzcarraldo, 1982) and Henry David Thoreau (
Walden; or, Life in the Woods, 1854).
I would like to thank the following institutions, that made this project possible
American Museum of Natural History, United States
Haus des Meeres Aqua Terra Zoo, Austria
MUSE - Museo delle Scienze, Italy
Naturhistorisches Museum, Austria
Orto Botanico di Padova, Italy
Orto Botanico di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
Palacio de Cristal de Arganzuela, Spain
Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid, Spain
Schmetterlinghaus Palmenhaus, Austria
The New York Botanical Garden, United States
Tiergarten Schönbrunn, Austria
Zoo Aquarium de Madrid, Spain
Work exhibited at the
F4 / un’idea di Fotografia, Fondazione Francesco Fabbri, Pieve di Soligo [IT], curated by Carlo Sala.
