One photo out of focus is a mistake, ten photo out of focus are an experimentation, one hundred photo out of focus are a style.

Paolo DegasperiDiscovering photography at the age of 13 and following this path parallel to his architectural studies as well as graphic design and art interests, the Italian architect and designer Paolo Degasperi soon was lead to Polaroid: "From the very first time I started to enjoy polaroid film, my one and only aim was to make polaroids as never anybody else did it before. Everyone with a polaroid of mine in his hand should say: How the hell is this possible?. This is actually, truly and sincerely what makes me start manipulating polaroid pictures seeking for the limits by experimenting with various techniques of manipulation in the darkroom".

The artist quickly learned to use the power of colors and manipulation and now seeks the perfect crop and perfect picture, searches for the perfect fragment for a perfect illusion for his Polaroid work. Because of the use of already existing images and a perfectionised process of arranging and manipulating the picture, Degasperi detects his work as far away from the " instant instinctual photograph", which does not weaken their impact but heightens their intensity and lends them an unmistakable characteristic.

The images do not come across as forced or unnaturally arranged. On the contrary; his darkroom experiments result in spectacularly vibrant images, harmonising or consciously and effectively disharmonising, tangling the viewer in intensive colors, often reducing them to two or three highly contrasty tones to develop the picture's mood to the maximum. His complex and extensive process results in challenging and sophisticated masterpieces in which he easily impresses with fairy tale like landscapes and bodyscape's while it is often hard to differentiate if the displayed forms are micro- or macro scape's, and creates disturbing negative illusions, often uses surreal subjects that fool the beholder's perception of proportions and repeatedly plays with all possibilities which the conscious usage of blur and diffusing edges or particular parts of an image provides, such as keeping the scenery dubious, cloudy and uncertain while always succeeding in trying to raise curiosity. His images are linked by an intensive dream like quality that is primary established by the surreal almost spine-chilling atmospheres he conjures.
The artist occupies an intuitive knowledge of cropping and framing the pictures in a way that it reaches the viewer's core immediately.

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