This is an unpublished project premiered today on C41 Magazine.
Francesco Sambati was born in Italy in San Pietro Vernotico (Br) on 12/02/1981
After graduating at the “Liceo Artistico V. Ciardo” in Lecce, he approached mobile photography and, subsequently, digital photography. In 2014, the first interviews and publications on photographic magazines (Witty Kiwi, Analog Magazine, Il Fotografo, Foto Cult, Hylas Magazine, Prime Edition Annual Journal, Blur Magazine, PhotoKlassik, Mauer Mag) up to the first solo show in 2015, “Aphasìa”, where he explores the female universe. Subsequently, he approaches to instant photography (Polaroid), a path that leads him to a new cycle of publications and exhibitions of the new project “Diaspora”, which tells of deserted holiday resorts in the winter months. He has exhibited in Italy, England, Romania and France.
He currently collaborates with Polaroid for the creation of promotional photos for their products. Lives and works in Lecce.
About ‘Statica’ – words by Francesco Sambati:
Living in southern Italy, known as every year, most of the photographic projects concerning the summer months in the south often show the more kitchy and noisy side, giving too much prominence to the frenetic and fast aspect.I therefore preferred to try to document the slower dimension, made up of micro stories in their own right, intimate frames made of absences and stillness, rather than frenzy and speed.
