Vittoria Gerardi is an Italian photographer who started to become familiar with photography at the age of sixteen. Shortly after, she began to observe and absorb the world around herself exploring shapes, substances, sounds.
For its multi-layered nature photography more than any other form of art has satisfied in her that particular search she was waiting for to embrace reality in a new way. After high school she moved to New York where she attended the International Center of Photography and worked as assistant to Italian photographer Renato D’Agostin.
In 2016, her first series of photographs entitled Confine, Vittoria found the inspiration for in the desert of Death Valley, in the United States. The elements of light and time that originated this experience are visualised as a selection of photographic fragments of the desert, condensed in the space of a line or other symbolic shapes. The tonalities surrounding those forms are achieved through the alteration of the chemical process, a process which Vittoria is constantly exploring in the darkroom, as she works on the “fragility” of the light-sensitive paper and analyses how the intensity of light gradually affects and changes the pure white into a wide range of browns and greys.
The time-matter explored in Confine became a motif and now resonates in her current project called Pompeii, in which she evokes the immortality of the lost city and the subtil equilibrium between what has been discovered and what is still buried. Vittoria Gerardi was born in Venice in 1996. She lives and works in London.
