AA2A Resident Artist

Gianluca Barbazza

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Art forms: Photography

York based Documentary Photographer.

My work talks about social issues, tradition, culture and everyday life as I see these matters being treated as a luxury in modern society, rather than being preserved and valued.

Humanism and society at heart, I see photography as a medium to acknowledge, understand and help.

Working with both digital and analogue systems, and rigorously in black and white. This enables my narrating style to set a serious and reminiscent tone, while giving stories a steady and dramatic feeling all along.

My interest sits within the social-documentary practice and most of my work has been inspired by pioneers of documentary photography like W. Eugene Smith, Josef Koudelka, Henry Cartier Bresson and Robert Frank.

photo of Gianluca

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