Denis Palbiani

A contemporary champion of digital chiaroscuro, Denis Palbiani creates photographs which capture a wide array of subject matter, including plant and animal life, landscapes and the human form. Sensual, unpredictable and compositionally challenging, Palbiani is known for his unprecedented techniques of illumination. Each work is the product of a single, painstakingly studied shot, for which he uses a small hand lamp in complete darkness to compose the photograph of a body, often a nude, a method executed without the aid of processing in postproduction. Using light to trace the topography of objects in his environment, this artist’s Baroque-influenced photography is about lines and flow. He shows a devout interest in border zones, edges - natural and artificial, singular and plural, flexible and concrete. Exteriors and interiors collide in these consummate depictions of organic and inorganic matter.
 
Denis Palbiani was born 1965 in the province of Reggio Emilia, Italy, where he currently lives and works. He is the winner of the World Championship for underwater photography.