The Italian central regions are rich of many kinds of beauties. The one I show here is quite strange: not only landscape, not architecture, not botanical garden, not sculpture park, not only a leisure space for rich people, but a mix of all. This is a place named Bomarzo where the prince Orsini in 1547 created for his wife a large garden, somehow “confused and wild”, full of statues incorporated and embedded with the nature and the wood. Nothing religious: better, magician, mythological, mysteriousophical, sometimes horrific work. Some Deity (Hercules, Isis, Neptune, Siren). Some allusions to the Hell. Probably the genius Michelangelo Buonarroti, who was linked to the artists involved in that work, collaborated in planning it. Bomarzo is one of the most bizarre beauties of the Italian Renaissance, mixing nature, culture, art and phantasy.
This is a selection from the pictures I made some years ago, mostly in 2016, as usual in b&w, medium format, using various analogical folding cameras, with no double-shot lock in order to allow multiple exposures, by shifting film when I liked. No darkroom work, no tricks, all you see has been made in the shooting moments. The images I post are scanned from the original negative with a minimum use of Photoshop for cleaning and optimizing, but still showing the original work (very raw, photographically speaking).