Biography
Born in Monza in 1951, where he lives and works, Ludovico Maria Gilberti is a careful photographer, author, artist and witness images of humanity. His photographs are not documents or travel impressions, but a real creative painting and inspired.
To Gilberti for photography is a passion that comes in at university, when practiced oil painting, but was also interested in photography in black and white and to its development. It was the time of the irresistible attraction for the first cameras SLR and development and printing self-made, essential conditions for his entire generation, influenced by the impact of the epochal film Blow Up by Antonioni in 1966 which was responsible for the huge success creative photography and experimental in those years.
Later, Gilberti was struck by the introduction of digital technology that has eliminated the alchemy and chemistry by photography, but allows him to experience the technological formula to mix his passion of painting with the art of photography. Gilberti does not use for further processing of the images on the computer, but experiences directly in the open air and creates his works with working time and diaphragm and other technological devices that have cameras present. The Canon is his paintbrush and the digital image his canvas.
Gilberti knows take the urban madness of New York and the cities of old Europe, the tides of the Indian Ocean, Kenya savannah and chaotic slums and squatters, as an artist involved and participating. Being photographer travel or smuggle feelings does not interest him. It demonstrates, however, his efforts towards an intimate understanding of people and scenes he portrays. His works are the reflection of emotion and color of a work of art, in addition to be carriers of information.
