The portfolio shows the steelworks Montecatini in Falconara Marittima (Ancona, Italy), built in 1928 and abandoned in 1991.
“I like to photograph places. Spaces where it is left a trace of a passage, an activity, a life. Marks of the buildings and objects in space are to me as an alternation between full and empty or, as in music, between sounds and silences. An abandoned place, as a factory put into disuse, is the best place where you can see this. The architecture in black and white are like skeletons, cathedrals of silence where an imaginary past emerges between the walls and the spaces where the grass has grown in years.
As a photographer, I took courses in 2005 and 2006 at the Institute of Zaragoza “Spectrum Sotos” and attended workshops in architectural photography with Pino Musi (2009). I work on personal photo projects and on commissions related to urban landscape, architecture and industry photography and I frequently collaborate with Gabriele Basilico as his assistant. I carried out research projects on Venice, Turin, Ancona, Senigallia, Ravenna, Chiasso, Biarritz, San Sebastian, Valencia and Zaragoza.”
My name is Gian Giacomo Stiffoni. I was born in 1967 in Seville (Spain) and live in Venice (Italy). I’m italian.
