Giovanni De Marchi

How important is it for you to investigate with a certain medium?
Exploring through a medium means knowing, expressing, and telling. It means rereading things through a personal and deeply intimate lens. It is a necessity that comes from within — a natural impulse to understand and give meaning to our experience.

Why are you attracted by being to much into detail?
Entering into the details means embarking on a journey and discovering worlds — changing your point of view and drawing closer, allowing elements to emerge that would be difficult to notice with the naked eye. Photography allows me to enter these worlds, to isolate them from their context in order to enhance them and transform them into something new. This is how landscapes, shapes, and patterns are created. Investigating, at times, ordinary objects means diving into the
microscopic to bring value to the macroscopic.

What inspires you apart from photography itself?
Being in contact with nature is my deepest source of inspiration; it is what drives me to express myself through photography. I am drawn to the history of the Earth and to those who have tried to tell its story in the most authentic way, undertaking scientific journeys and discovering unknown places. I feel the need to experience nature by staying close to it, observing it, and taking note of what surrounds me.

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Giovanni De Marchi is a photographer and climber based in Venice.