Elisabetta Spinelli from Switzerland is a photographer who creates exclusively in black and white. This allows her to focus on the composition.
“I’m generally intrigued by geometry, reflections, and shadow play,” she says. If there is a human presence in Spinelli’s photos, it is just a tiny piece of a background, a speck on the precise canvas. Technical approach and knowledge of the proportions, symmetry, and lighting are clearly visible in her portfolio.
Characteristic of Spinelli’s photography is the pursuit of what she calls “monochromatic atmospheres,” which is brilliantly applied to the wide-lens landscapes, resulting in truly breathing, cinematic captures of nature.
Like many other artists practicing the delicate art of framing, she chooses to forfeit the use of a color, which becomes secondary, and turns her attention towards perspective, which she considers as being “fundamental” to her approach and to the way the viewer perceives the shot.
Spinelli chooses to act as a director, not allowing much room for interpretation, but instead guiding the viewer on how her art should be experienced.
Read our “Metamorphosis” issue in full
In the 3rd issue of RAWGUE., 24 visual artists and poets share a common pursuit: authenticity over perfection. The subtle art of becoming, the passage through various stages of artistic contemplation, the ever-shifting states of mind, feeling, and medium, or the act of altering reality to underline emotion or meaning – metamorphosis.
We’re a team of writers using our craft to spotlight art in its most honest form. RAWGUE. started as a bi-monthly editorial experiment where each issue’s theme is dictated by the submitted work, thus removing editorial bias from the equation and preserving a more raw approach. We focus on all forms of poetry: written, photographed, painted, drawn, and filmed.
