Vincenzo Castella

Vincenzo Castella (born 1952 in Naples, lives and works in Milan) is among the best-known Italian urban landscape photographers. He lives in Milan, and has used colour photography since 1975. In 1998 he began his series on buildings and put forward hypothetical visual narratives on the complexity of the urban fabric and its interweaving nature, expressed through blown-up colour prints from large and extra-large format film. A far cry from any form of stylistic evolutionism, his work is bound up in the analysis of language, of existence and vision. His research includes images of Italian and European cities like Naples, Milan, Rouen, Caen, Le Havre, Helsinki and Berlin, as well as images of territories and sites like Ramallah and Jerusalem. His works have been displayed in galleries and museums in many countries around the world, and he has taken part in the Biennales of Art and Architecture of Venice on various occasions.