B_P_2015_04_

Description

To photograph my shadows as I interacted with my

environment and explored my presence in it.

Duration

Ongoing since 2010

notes

The landscape was a major part of each image.

I would start with it and fi nd a way to fi t myself in.

My Assignment

F

or as long as I can remember, I have

loved being outdoors. I grew up

in the countryside near Tuscany,

Italy where I was surrounded with

greenery and animals. The project

began one day when I was looking for an

animal for my series of photographs titled

Animals. When I looked down through the

viewfi nder, I found my shadow falling on

the road, with a picturesque mountain in

the background.

To me, it looked very beautiful, almost

like a performance. I started to make

funny poses to see what the shadows

Giacomo Brunelli delves deeper into his relationships with the camera,

himself and his love for nature through a series of self-portraits.

Into the OutdoorsInto the Outdoors

The shadows

I projected

needed to

have their own

personality.

would look like before settling on one that

I photographed. I did not give this image

much thought, but when I came back to

the print later, I realised that it had the

Sometimes I would

photograph just my

head. At other times,

I would shoot just

my body or make an

image where I looked

decapitated. It was a

way of reconstructing

myself in pieces.

Better PhotograPhy

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aPril 2015

on assignment

Better PhotograPhy

80

on assignment