Sirio Magnabosco

‘In Between Reality’

Distant figures, captured in banal, everyday situations: waiting, contemplation. Shapes which walk alone, abstract, indifferent to their surroundings. Urban scenes, holiday landscapes, countries far from the Mediterranean. Silhouettes that seem suspended between two realities: the physical reality which surrounds them and the non-material, invisible reality of your own thoughts. The photographs are accompanied by characters, images of details which more than just add information or signal a narrative discourse. They serve to deepen the sensations transmitted by the portraits of these anonymous figures.

Magnabosco has been working on this project since he started travelling. His last trip was to Japan, and his intention is to complete the series with the images he hopes to take during a future trip to North America.

Background

Verona, Italy, 1980

Sirio Magnabosco graduated with a degree in History and Cinematic Techniques from the University of Ferrara (Italy), and in Photojournalism, Creative and Commercial Photography in 2004 from the John Kaverdash Photography Academy in Milan.

In 2005 he started to work with Marco Ambrosi as a fashion and set photographer. In 2006 he collaborated with Kent Kobersteen, of National Geographic, on the project ‘Focus on Monferrato’. He attended the seminars given by Giorgia Fiorio and Gabriel Bauret, Reflections International Masterclass, for two years. He also works as photographic assistant to Magnum’s Jim Goldberg.

He has been published in various international magazines, and has received various prizes and grants. He showed his first individual exhibition at the Photo Biennale exhibition 2008 in Thessalonica.