Biography
Claudio Falcone, from Catania, Italy, born in '75, does not like to call himself a photographer, but rather someone that takes pictures.
His passion dates back more than 20 years ago when he started shooting with an SLR, given to him by his father, setting with the lens fragments of memory mediated by his own personal vision of reality. For him, self-taught, technique is necessary but not sufficient. His technique comes from instinct, and the result is born from imagining the shot direct to the naked eye, making it a reality with a measured perspective from his hand.
A neo-neorealist style that anachronistically prefers black and white because that's the image he sees. A chromatic gray that elegantly exalts the games of shadow and natural light that bring the photo to life or allow it to be lived dreamily. No filters, no artificial light, no installation and very little use of chromatic effects.
His credo is precisely to capture reality, the real non-artificial one and without masks. These intimate and unshareable images that for years have been jealously guarded and never exposed.
After the first group exhibitions in Sicily, his photographs were discovered and appreciated by Hollywood stars at the Venice Film Festival 2011, some of whom have become his private collectors, (while not wishing to betray their names, since they are known to the general public). The praises of these characters have made him internationally known, allowing him to continue without public exhibits, relying instead on private showings in cultural salons of Paris where the collectors were able to get hold some of its numbered prints.
Contacted by international galleries, you should soon be seeing him at one of his own shows, despite his own reluctance to exhibit his work.
His credo: "Seeing, doing"
