Marco Gagliardi is an Italian photographer who shoots exclusively in black and white.
With a camera as his constant companion, Gagliardi created a grainy journal of monochromatic postcards. Through the frames of desolate roads and fields, the viewer can channel a traveler who belongs nowhere and everywhere, hitchhiking to the nearest town.
His approach to photography is documentary. Every place looks equally inviting and familiar, noticed and captured by the unassuming lens. “I own everything I see and feel happy about. The whole world, if you like,” said beloved Moomin Valley’s wanderer Snufkin. This is the message that Gagliardi’s work evokes.
There is an unexpected element of impulsiveness and borderline recklessness in his photography.
Oddly, his black and white work reveals ambient, desolate landscapes while simultaneously preserving a sense of childlike wonder. The forests and empty roads are not merely melancholic paths to a misty oblivion; they are gateways to harmless, untainted fantasies.
A raw quality can be traced through his portfolio—a joy found across colorless pastures. The trees seem solitary only from afar; yet, if one dares to get closer, they would be able to hear them telling ancient, wonderful stories of the past.
Read our “Camouflage” issue in full
RAWGUE.’s 4th issue delved into the grey, moody, and cold atmosphere of winter. Yet it did not sink into the depths of madness or depression. Instead, it embraced this season of hibernation, allowing 31 artists from all over the world to present their timid work beneath a veil of quiet beauty.
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.
