Published in issue #1 2024, Creative Photography

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Light is the fundamental element of photography, its raw material. It is precisely the significance and dignity of this that becomes the focus of my work.

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I wondered how to make light the creator of its art, the protagonist of the creative process. I am ready to step aside, leaving my role as a creator and taking on the spectator one. That’s why I free myself from the camera, abandoning all automation and manual settings. I only need photosensitive support and a light source to impress upon it. My photos will not be taken; I will simply capture what light wants to offer me.

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Without the interference of a photographic device, I let the light draw its shapes on the self-developing Polaroid film. Once developed before my eyes, I limit myself, as the only personal intervention, to select those that best communicate, composing them into polyptychs. The result is a group of images that speak of light, with light, for light.

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A collection of windows into a different world from ours, a cosmos that seems to bridge two distant realities. On one side, the world of the real, tangible, and known; on the other, an invisible realm, the home of a mystery hidden behind the light itself, a mystery only light can reveal.

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The most important revelation, however, is that light can bring art into our world, even freed from the constraints of meticulous photographic settings.

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‍About

Gabriele Fossi (Empoli, 1995) is an Italian photographer based in Florence. His work often stems from conceptual premises and is primarily developed through instant photography. After studying physics, he decided to pursue a photography career, and in 2020, he began a three-year course in photography and new media at the Fondazione Studio Marangoni. During this program, he had the opportunity to collaborate with other international schools and important local organisations. He has exhibited numerous times in collective exhibitions at the FSM Gallery and, in 2022, at the Experimental Photo Festival in Barcelona.

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Gabriele Fossi