Isacco Emiliani
Isacco Emiliani (1991) is an Italian photographer and videomaker, his work is based on long-term projects, often expressed in artistic form, which describe the environment and the relationship between man and nature.
He regularly works on commissioned projects oriented towards sustainability, protection and conservation with institutions, schools, profit and non-profit entities, and since 2021 with the Immagine Terra project he has been carrying out immersive photographic workshops.
Since 2016 he has been the author of the independent and continuous project Arctic Visions, a series composed of several collections to tell the story of the Arctic regions, raising awareness of their great beauty and fragility (White Finland, 2017; Prehistoric Norway, 2018; Native Alaska, 2019; No Mans Land Svalbard, Svalbard, 2020; Lost in Grønland, 2023).
In 2022 he published Ottantuno (ed. Nutsforlife), an art book in a limited series of 501 copies, with a preface by Jane Goodall dedicated to monumental trees encountered in seven years of night walks spent together with his grandfather Tonino.
This is one of the last images of Ottantuno, a project that from 2016 to 2022 saw me and my grandfather walking the paths of our land discovering the largest trees that are part of the Italian regions of Emilia Romagna and Tuscany.
We could only discover all this at night, so we made over 150 expeditions guided by the stars to tell the story of the power of trees, of our land and above all of the generational bond.
Today it has become a book, Eighty-One, with a preface by Jane Goodall.
The Guardian, Poplar of San Paolo in Alpe. An important icon tree of this land.
Every evening that we went to photograph the trees we always looked for the ideal conditions to photograph them, that June evening, the sky promised rain and lots of clouds. The color of the June tree is unique, but to show that beauty through photography you must choose a particular evening.
It was the right evening, the sky brought out the textures of the tree in a unique way.
His works have been presented in prestigious exhibition venues, including Ph21 Gallery (Budapest, 2024), Belfast Photo Festival (Belfast, 2024), Circulation(s) (CENTQUATRE, Paris, 2023), Gallerie d’Italia (Inside, Turin, 2022), Panoràmic Festival (La Capella , Barcelona, 2022; Museu de Ciències Naturals, Granollers, 2022), Auditorium Parco della Musica (Centenario dei Parchi Italiani, Rome, 2022), Stazione Leopolda (Florence, 2023), Monastery of Astino (Bergamo, 2023), Foundation Cassa di Risparmio di Orvieto (Orvieto 2023), Millepiani (Rome, 2023), , Les Cultures OdV (Lecco, 2021), Grenze – Arsenali Fotografie (Verona, 2023-2021), Winter Film Tiny Festival (Bergamo, 2020), MIC International Ceramics Museum (Faenza, 2018).
They have also been studied and published by numerous media, including: Il Provinciale (Rai 1, 2024), Geo (Rai 3, 2024, 2022, 2020), Il Provinciale (Rai 2, 2021), Pianeta2030 (Il Corriere della Sera, 2024), LensCultures (Favorite Phtotobooks 2022), Noah’s Ark (Canale 5, 2023), Radio Deejay (2020), La Repubblica (2021), La Stampa (Lo Specchio 2022), La Stampa (2022), Artribute (2023), Il Sole 24h (2021), La Gazzetta dello Sport (2023), GQ (2021), Grazia (2021), Topolino (2022), Ossigeno (2023), Artribune (2023), Artwort (2019), LifeGate (2021), Gente di Fotografia (2023), Asferico (2023), Flowe (2021), Dove Viaggi (2021).
MONOGRAPHS AND PUBLICATIONS
LOST IN GRØNLAND / collection #5 Arctic Visions
OTTANTUNO / Art Book – nutsforlife ed.
NO MANS LAND SVALBARD / collection #4 Arctic Visions
NATIVE ALASKA / collection #3 Arctic Visions
PREHISTORIC NORWAY / collection #2 Arctic Visions
WHITE FINLAND / collection #1 Arctic Visions
EXHIBITIONS AND AWARDS
2024/04 LOST IN GRØNLAND / Belfast Photo Festival Winner Books;
2024/02 LOST IN GRØNLAND / exhibition Budapest, Ph21 Gallery;
2024/01 LOST IN GRØNLAND / Tokyo foto awards, bronze nature book prize;
2023/04 OTTANTUNO / Roma, Italy. Millepiani / collective exhibition
2023/03 OTTANTUNO / Festival Circulation(s) at Centquatre-Paris / award exhibition
2022/12 OTTANTUNO / Favorite Photobooks 2022 by LensCulture
2023/05 OTTANTUNO / Verona, Italy. Grenze, Serre Comunali
2022/11 OTTANTUNO / Faenza, Italy. Galleria d’arte Molinella
