Marco Migliozzi Ph
Marco Migliozzi was born in Rome. After a degree in sociology, he started getting interested in photography. Shots from all over the world were soon to enrich his photographic database: Greenland, Antarctica, Vietnam, Iran, Borneo, Japan, Africa, South America, all featured in his pictures.
The shots taken during these travels were on display at “I think”, the solo exhibition in Scanno and at the Città del Gusto in Rome: here, the portraits of faces from all over the world take centre stage and play with the audience.
In the solo exhibition titled “ Correlations: the streets, situations and routes of food”, on display at the Wine Bar of Città del Gusto in Rome, photography and gastronomy go side by side: the shots capture the various stages of preparation, realisation and consumption of food from all over the world.
Marco has published his works on major journals such as Repubblica.it and National Geographic.
He currently works for a large Italian company, in the area of visual communication. He also works as a free lance in publishing, graphic design and filmmaking. He is currently involved in the realisation of short movies on safety as a director and screen player.
He teaches photography at all levels, from beginners to advanced learners.
“At the beginning of my career as a photographer, I used to wait for the moment in which human beings left the scene, because I thought their presence would spoil the perfect shot; now, it is precisely this “element of disruption” what I’m after”.
Staring at too much snow makes you blind….
In today’s communication age, the amount of images that constantly hit us is so huge that we are often unable to choose and analyse their content according to our own taste or interest. There are many reasons for this, but the most evident are the following:
• Communication agencies, Internet, social media, TV channels and magazines bomb us with images…. They’re so many that it becomes impossible for us to filter all this information and the result is that we get overwhelmed.
• These images present themselves to us at such a fast pace that we don’t have the time to properly digest them.
• The media choose and select for us the images we are supposed to see.
• We are convinced that we can truly know the world through images: for instance, we think we know China because we saw it on TV or on the Internet.
However impacting it may be, an image you get to see for few seconds will quickly be forgotten, as the thoughts and impressions it stirred in your mind will disappear immediately after seeing the next one. The same thing happen when you’re at the dentist and you’re in pain: as long as you’re there, you swear to yourself you’re going to be thorough with your brushing from that moment on; but as soon as the pain is gone and the memory fades away, you completely forget what you promised yourself a few hours earlier.
My “shooting philosophy” aims at capturing the very idea I want to represent through the formula “one picture = one story”. My goal is not to impress spectators through sensational pictures that, more often than not, are the result of Photoshop modifications; it’s the pure action I represent that must catch their attention.… But those who know snow, like the Inuits, have many right words to call it (“Eskimo Words for Snow”, 1968, Laura Martin). Marco is also involved in the creation of video clips. He has created for ENI, as author and director, various video clips to raise awareness on security; A clip, entitled Back to safety, was ranked in the top 30 of over 150 clips at the International Media Festival for Prevention - Singapore 2017 (mediainprevention.org).
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