TITLE: Of Lights and Shadows

The series developed as an attempt to collect everyday scenes as they transmuted into hallucinated visions. Every time I photographed, I could see light alchemizing matter into shadows, allowing the silhouettes of the world to cast their illusions onto what remained of reality.

AUTHOR: Pio De Rose (Italy)

Pio De Rose (b. 1987) is an Italian photographer currently based in Genoa. In 2011 he graduated in Photography and Visual Arts from the Libera Accademia di Belle Arti L.A.B.A. of Florence with the reportage Saints and Miracles. In 2012 he received his MA in Photojournalism from the University of Westminster with the project Aquaria, The Blue Glass Landscape.

Recent publications and collaborations include Vanity Fair Italy; Io Donna; la Repubblica; mare – Die Zeitschrift der Meere; Neighbor Magazine; Black+White Photography; Æ Another Escape; on landscape; Don’t Take Pictures; Historic Gardens Review; F-Stop Magazine; International PhotogrAphy Magazine; Adnkronos; WAZA Magazine; The Work Style Magazine; Clic.he Webmagazine; SciFondo; Mondo Sommerso – International Ocean Magazine; ASSAI; L’Universo (IGM); dAD – dipartimento di Architettura e Design – University of Genoa; Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti of Genoa; Municipality of Ravenna and others.


Fine Art Photography Awards 2021 nominee | night photography | professionals | Out of the Blue

International Photography Grant 2019 2nd place | landscape | Out of the Blue

Camera Work 2018 2nd place | Dei Paesi

International Photography Grant 2017 nominee | nature | Parchi di Nervi

Black+White Photographer of the Year 2015 shortlisted | Off on a Crisis