MARIO GIACOMELLILANDSCAPESON BEING AWARE OF NATUREMETAMORPHOSIS OF THE LAND “The Land stands for what cannot be said, for space and time. / The Land is the skin and the soul of something huge./ The Land awakens new realities within us,/ it is a reserve of energy./ The Land inhabits life./ The Land, kind even when it feels humiliated/ by man’s speculation./ Things visible in The Land are the signs/ that bring forth the invisible,/ the mind&…

Widely regarded as the greatest Italian photographer of the twentieth century, Mario Giacomelli was born in Senigallia, Italy, in 1925. Following a poor formal education, he began his working life as a jobbing printer, before training as a typographer and did not fully embrace photography until he was 30 years old. Despite this late start and his sometimes unconventional almost naïve approach, and in some ways because of it, Giacomelli is now considered one of the most original photographic art…