I am very excited to announce the opening of my solo show 'Redacted Topographies' at Gallery 1401 within the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
A huge thank you to Harris Fogel for the incredible honor and for all his support and patience along the way.
This show represents yet another departure for me: not only have I finally abandoned my obsession with the purity of the image by introducing some other design elements, but I have also aged and manipulated the prints (on Kozo japanese paper). I am personally very happy with the result, but I would of course love to hear what you think!
The show will be up until February 5th, so do go visit if you are in the area:
Gallery 1401
Monday - Friday
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
215-717.6300
Terra Hall
211 S Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
From the gallery press release:
Philadelphia – San Francisco-based photographer Nicolò Sertorio’s “Redacted Topographies” series is about our relationship with the environment around us: how we perceive it, how we live in it and how we relate to it. The more we move to urban lifestyles that are connected mostly through the web of technological means, the less we understand the world we live in and thus loose our respect toward it. Sertorio states that, “This series is a hypothetical archeology of the failed ideology of the conquest of nature; it is my belief that the idea of 'conquering’ nature has become an excuse for the indiscriminate abuse of the land. Individuality and personal freedom have turned into selfishness; there is no social accountability, no price to pay for any environmental damage. I therefore imagine a near future where humans have self-destructed and disappeared.” Beautiful landscape photographs combined with a scientific mapping system provide an alternative view of the environment.
Nicolò Sertorio is a fine art and commercial photographer based in the Bay Area in California. He earned a BA degree in International Business from the University of Dublin, Ireland, and an MBA in Economia e Commercio from the Università degli studi di Torino, Italy. Born in Princeton, his parents were both university professors, later moving to Turin, Italy, where he grew up. Later they moved to Switzerland for eight years, then finally to California, where he worked for 10 years at HP as a solution strategist for the digital imaging group before leaving to start his own photography practice. In between, he lived in Italy, Switzerland, Ireland, Belgium, India, France and Germany, and his work reflects this set of diverse aesthetic and cultural influences. He is president of the Northern California chapter of ASMP. His work has won numerous awards, including Critical Mass finalist, Prix de la Photo Paris, International Loupe Award, PDN Photo of the Day, American Photography 30, The Center for Fine Art Photography “Portfolio ShowCase 6,” Blurb “Photography Book Now,” FotoWeek DC International Awards, among others. Among the publications that have featured his work are Fraction Magazine, Lensculture, art magazin kontura (Croatia), Domus magazine, AdWeek, DoubleTakes and Time magazine.
Now in its 17th year, Gallery 1401 offers a year-round regular schedule of exhibitions of contemporary photography. Associate Professor and former director of the Photography program Harris Fogel, who founded Gallery 1401 in 1999, has been director/curator of both 1401 and Sol Mednick since 1997.
