Pro photographer since '90.

Nudes, conceptual photography, fine art works, fashion and advertising.

About my work.
Although I started photographing nudes relatively soon, my research on natural and abstract forms began by chance, one day on the Punta Corvo’s beach in Liguria (Italy) in 1993. I remember it was an autumn day. I and my model went down to the beach after about a thousand steps overlooking the sea.
Once we reached the beach we noticed that the waves were too high to take a bath and then we immediately started to compose shapes and takes photographs inspired by the smooth shapes of woods on the shore. That day we made "White Driftwood", probably my most representative photo. Then came out other abstract shapes, representing in some way the pieces of wood carved by the waves. Observing nature I realized that sculpture and art in general are part of a natural process of various changes without end, just like a driftwood shaped by waves until someone collects it and brings it at home.

Why I take photographs.

I produce my sculptures in photography for pure passion. I enjoy to find new shapes and emphasize the beauty of nature as well as the natural beauty. I like to use abstract form to draw analogies between the human body and the landscape. I like to create anthropomorphic sculptures observing nature and studying what sculptors made in past. I don’t know if my work is important or not but in my sculptures I like evoking both, the natural world and the human body simultaneously and it would be nice to encourage the viewer to look upon the natural world as one endlessly varied sculpture created continually by natural processes.




Artist statement

I had periods of great passion for photography interspersed with moments of ups And downs, generally due to the fact that photography was stealing too much time and money to my private life. However, despite the periods of discomfort, the photography is still present in my life.
That’s because to me taking photographs is pure passion.
Thinking more deeply about the meaning of life I believe that in some way passion is an essential element just like one of the five elements described by the ancient Greeks (fire, air, water, earth and spirit). Probably passion is the only meaning of our short lives... perhaps the life itself.




Kindly note
I work with NATURAL BEAUTIES ONLY

This means :

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NO TATOOS (I don't like to spend hours to delete tatoos on PS)
NO PIERCINGS TOO INTRUSIVES
NO METALS
NO SCARIFICATIONS
NO FAKE TITS
NO PLASTIC FACES

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LINKS:

Massimo Conti | Fine Art Photography

Web Site
http://www.massimocontifactory.com

Books:
http://www.amazon.com/Massimo-Conti/e/B004HZ5BK8
    
Photo Quotes by Massimo Conti
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Conti has an amazing ability and mastery in the use of light and shadow as well as an excellent sensibility in the composition of the feminine figure.

His approach to the study of grace, softness, sensuality, simplicity and the spirit as intertwined with nature is pure passion.

He says that his primary source of inspiration is nature. This statement comes at no surprise at all since in many of his anthropomorphic figures and fine art works we find different traces of nature: cliffs, stones, woods, shells and the sea are major elements that everything is composed with extreme rigor and care for details; perhaps his true art is simply in the placement of the models since they often become authentic, beautiful, exquiste living sculptures during the shooting session.

The singularity of his work is in the originality of his forms and it is interesting to note that, although we are 150 years beyond the birth of photography there are still artists able to create new shapes and new emotions.

Books

http://www.amazon.com/Massimo-Conti/e/B004HZ5BK8

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