Analogue photography as a space of discovery

On the Terrarium bench, we had guest Marcello Vigoni, a Milanese photographer who has made analogue his stylistic choice.

The conversation was an opportunity to explore Marcello Vigoni’s creative approach, in which error invites us to search for new meanings and becomes an opportunity to reinterpret the urban environment and nature.

‘Multiverse’: dialogue between nature and urban environments

The theme of the relationship between nature and urban environments is at the heart of the ‘Multiverse’ project.

Growing up in Milan, he has always perceived city ‘walls’ as limits to vision. ‘I tried to hypothesise an alternative vision,’ Vigoni explains, finding in nature “something unchanging in time”.

‘The idea was actually born from a mistake.’ Analogue photography, with its imperfections and unpredictability, becomes a space where ‘by making mistakes we find things that are more interesting and more important’. An invitation to be surprised and to capture the beauty in the unexpected.

I am not interested in recounting reality. I am interested in narrating an idea of reality and therefore I need to take away information.

The tree: connection and adaptation

The tree is a recurring element in Vigoni’s photographs. ‘The tree is what reminds us of our nature,’ he says, emphasising how we humans, just like trees, adapt to our surroundings.

Vigoni prefers not to give his photographs a title. For him, they are all called poetic. ‘I would never want to explain what generated creation in me,’ he says, leaving everyone free to “find their own poetic response”.

A hymn to nature and freedom

The interview is a unique opportunity to immerse yourself in Marcello Vigoni’s photographic world, an invitation to rediscover the beauty of nature, to be surprised by the unexpected and to find our own personal view of the landscape around us.

See also the full interview.