TITLE: Mantua, night visions

Through photographic artifice I tried to reconstruct the sets of my imagination. Mantua has lived for centuries sublime and malarious nights, when it remains abandoned to itself, to cats, to lonely lovers. In the dark, it is a body that lets itself be explored; a repertoire that reveals the archeology itself of the landscape and grants the privilege of a journey through time.
I made visions of this city the destination of my journeys and the object of a large part of my work as a photographer, the scenarios of my memory.

AUTHOR: Paolo Perina (Italy)

Since my adolescence I have been interested in photography following my amateur photographer father. After graduating in architecture, I professionally devoted myself to photography and teaching art history in high schools. I have collaborated with many publishing houses who have used my images for architecture and art magazines and books. I have carried out photographic research on the morphological changes of the landscape which have resulted in personal and collective exhibitions. As masters who have strongly inspired me, I can mention Paolo Monti and Gabriele Basilico.