“I capture the inner light of human beings”

Bio

Self-taught, Ugo started creating images in 2017 after over 30 years in the software industry.

Ugo believes that an image is not a photograph until it is printed so he soon starts working at several projects to produce printed books of his and other artists’ work.

He produced a series of 30+1 volumes with a magazine cut, the “nudeartzine” project. Each issue is a monograph dedicated to a photographer and his own vision of nude art and includes an introduction written by Ugo about the work of the artist.

Ugo is always looking to grow, to learn how to create a book that can tell a story he start the “Appunti di viaggio” (traveling notes) project. Each issue talk about a story of a person and includes an introduction about that person written by Ugo as well as texts written by the subject.

After his books are banned by Amazon, Ugo decides to print everything in studio, he produces the first “Collector Box”: a semi-transparent plastic box including a series of 18 images and produced as limited editions.

To underline that images become photographs only after they are printed Ugo changes his social presence: after closing his old Instagram profile, he creates a new one showing digital negatives.

So far Ugo has received several awards from the 1x.com website and a nomination in the One Shoot Photo Contest in the “Conceptual 
Photography” category.

Exhibitions

Solo
2024~2025
WE ARE THE FOREST
Craving Art
Alice e il Vino, Rome, Italy
December, 19 2024~January, 20 2025

2020
Women in studio
Internet
MAC Art, Milan, Italy
November 2020~2021

2019
Como nel quadrato
Como, Italy
Permanent ~ Permanente
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Group
2024
Photocircuito
La Copia, Milano, Italy
October, 28~November, 17

2024
Big Event
Superstudio, Milano, Italy
October, 19~20 2024

2024
Milano Sunday Photo
Cascina Cuccagna, Milano, Italy
May, 4~5 2024

2023
Milano Sunday Photo
Cascina Cuccagna, Milano, Italy
December, 2 2023

2021
Contatti Visivi
Milano, Italy
September, 12~18 2021

2019
Symphonie de Couleurs
Venice, Italy
August ~ October 2019

2019
Tribù Ca’Dura
Padova, Italy
October ~ November 2019


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