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24/12/2025

A plant, some light.

Gardolo, 16.12.2025

The painter Gianni Pellegrini, an important figure in the analytical painting movement, has his studio and archive in Riva del Garda. On a rainy afternoon, he welcomed us into his home to talk about his painting and his projects. He is currently cataloging his works, as a gallery in Rome is curating his catalog. A very kind and approachable person, he showed us many of his works, explaining his unique painting techniques, which create a visual effect in which the works appear both tangible and ethereal at the same time.

Some details of the painting exhibition currently on display in the hotel, the hotel interiors, and the hotel garden.

Canon G12

Canon G12

Canon G12

Canon G12

Since I really love reading about other people's workflow, here is mine. I decided to test my Agfa Selectronic Sensor S. Therefore, I put in 24 exposures of Fomapan 200 that I bought on a roll and fed into a spooler. I also bought the film magazines. This saves money. I photograph essentially in black and white for three reasons: the first is that an element of complexity is removed from the equation, namely color. The second is economic: color film costs an inordinate amount of money. For color, I prefer to use my Canon Powershot G10. Finally because with black and white it is easier to be in control of the process from start to finish. Loading the camera, I took a ride to the northern outskirts of the city, Trento, where all the administration buildings are located. It was a cold and overcast day, the weather forecast had announced snow. Back home I pulled out the film tail using another piece of slightly wet film. At that point I inserted the magazine into my Lab-Box, which allows development in bright light, hooked the film tail, closed the lid, and loaded the film into the spiral. At this point I prepared the developing liquid, 300 ml of caffenol, which I now use all the time and with consistent results, for developing black and white negatives. I used this recipe: https://filmdev.org/recipe/show/11645https://filmdev.org/recipe/show/11645 When development was finished, I hung the film to dry. Once dry I digitized it using a Sony a7 digital camera with a 50mm macro lens from Pentax, mounted with an adapter. The camera is mounted on a moving column, while the negative is held thanks to a Lomography gadget that also produces the necessary backlighting. The camera is connected with a USB cable to the PC, which-thanks to a remote control-allows shooting from a distance, without touching the device. After capture, the negatives are processed in Darktable (open source). Images are retouched to fine-tune brightness and contrast, although in general only a few steps are required.

Venice is a wonderful city, for me the most beautiful city in the world. One must go there at least once a year to recharge oneself with images, because Venice is the city inside out, different from any other, because it forces us to question our perceptions and together to imagine alternatives. In Venice you walk, up and down bridges, in narrow streets. At the limit one sails, in no hurry to get there. Venice is the city of narrow dialect, of the small people who still inhabit it with difficiulty, and at the same time of great luxury, of international tourism and red carpets. Venice is a city built on water that little by little sinks, destined sooner or later to disappear, and we along with it. Venice is beautiful always, even when there is fog, as happened to me on this two-day trip, where the sky and the sea were one and the same.