Luoghi
Nicola Buonomo
Kult Books
Italian
Hardcover
160 pages
170 × 225 mm
2025
ISBN 9789198760781
In his debut monograph, Luoghi, Nicola Buonomo deepens his engagement with nine familiar places. Ranging from his grandmother’s backyard to a sand production facility nearby, these are all within a few kilometers of Nicola’s home in Northern Sicily, Italy. The photographs display a slight but dissonant relationship between man-made infrastructure and the natural world.
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About the Artist
Nicola Buonomo is an Italian photographer. He has a degree in medicine and a specialization in child and adolescent neuropsychiatry. At the same time as studying medicine, he studied theatre and took part in several experimental theatre performances where the main purpose was to strive towards truth of form and emotion, rejecting any type of formal cliché. For some years, he has deepened the photographic art through a self-taught path and, subsequently, through an individual path with a professional photographer, who has allowed him to refine the technique but, above all, to understand the historical and cultural roots of the photographic image. Today, photography is for him a tool for understanding the “things” of the world and a pretext for restoring meaning to the apparent chaos of everyday life. He likes images imbued with a certain degree of ambiguity, those that leave room for more interpretive possibilities (someone said: “the whole is greater than the sum of the parts”). He prefers images that ask questions rather than give “certain” partial answers. Moving away from the figurative cliché, his research tends to conquer an aesthetic beauty but in the philosophical sense: the unveiling of the “true” through an image that requires the presence of a slow gaze, far from the noise of the stereotype of the figure, but close to the silence of “peripheral things”.
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About the Publisher
Kult Books is an independent publishing project for photography and other lens-based visual arts founded by Janne Riikonen in Stockholm, Sweden. Kult Books publishes monographs and artist books that embrace a personal artistic vision and visual language. The publications are created in close collaboration with the artists, the physical form designed to support the concept of the work.
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