Dutch | 1959 – 2023 | Photography / Film
Created meticulously staged, cinematic photographs exploring beauty, identity, sexuality, and societal norms through elaborately constructed tableaux with dramatic lighting and surrealist undertones.
Dutch | 1997 – present | Photography
Creates cinematic, dream-like photographs that blur documentary and fiction, exploring masculinity, memory, and coming-of-age through vivid colors and staged narratives.
Italian, b. 1968, Milan, photography
Paolo Ventura builds intricate miniature dioramas by hand, then photographs them to look like frozen film stills. His scenes draw on family memory and wartime Italy, blurring the line between staged fiction and remembered history.
Website: https://www.paoloventura.com/
