GIANLUIGI BONFIGLIO Italy 500px.com/gianluigibonfiglio Since I was 18 years old, I lived away from home and I travelled to study and to work, earlier in Venice then in Aachen (Germany). Now I live and work in Padua (Northern Italy). Since I was very young (seven years old), I began to paint with temper and china ink. I had the necessity to comunicate and to express myself with signs and, most of all, with black and white drawing of landscapes and seascapes with China Ink. At 18 years old I began to study architecture and I could continue to draw and till my first year of University I started to take architectural pictures with my analogic camera. Pictures and drawings were an important way to communicate till my degree in architecture. After many years of unactivity, in 2012 I began to use my mobil phone during a travel in Sicily (my homeland) and since that I’ve found it as an important way to express myself and to see the world with new eyes. In my photographic work I am influenced first of all by paintings i studied when i was young, MonoPix 2016© | 46
principally Raffaello and Michelangelo but in my education an important rule had the classical fairytales my father told me when i was young: he changed everytime something and everytime the story was new and amazing. This detail influenced me very much in my actiity as architect, painter and also in digital art photography. The photographer that, most of all, i admire are: Mimmo Jodice, Gabriele Basilico, Man Ray, André Kertész, Stanley Kubrick and Michael kenna, Now i let Emanuela Tosin write a few words about my work The images of Gianluigi Bonfiglio tell of a travel through the life, that breaks the chains of congruence in order to modify the appearance of the material world. The photographer is able to bring buildings, empty spaces, landscapes and people into another dimension where you can feel the various aspects of the life in continuous evolution. His photographs are simultaneously detached from reality and part of it.