Using a large format camera, Campigotto tackles large subject matter, from the Manhattan skyline seen through a graffiti-splattered Five Pointz bulding in Queens, to a somber mountainside in Lamayuru, Ladakh, India. Despite the large size of his color pigment prints, the viewer is drawn in to examine the scene at a intricate level of detail, enhanced by the dazzling quality of light he achieves.
His cityscapes feature blurred lines of traffic recorded over long exposures, and yet a stillness and quietness pervades his work. His landscapes, on the other hand, are shot in remote locations that engulf the viewer in a grand sense of scale.
Luca Campigotto was born in Venice in 1962, and divides his time between Milan and New York. Nine books of his work have been published, the most recent GOTHAM CITY, featuring pictures of New York, with an introduction by Marvin Heiferman. Campigotto has exhibited internationally, including three times at the Venice Biennale; the Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal; IVAM, Valencia; MAXXI, Rome; MOCA, Shanghai; and the Margulies Collection, Miami. His work was included in the exhibition Landmark: the Fields of Photography, at the Somerset House, Strand, in London, curated by William Ewing.