Through his photography, Francesco Raffaelli goes on exploring the boundaries between physical space and perception, offering a unique perspective on the mutability of places and their impact on collective memory. He has dedicated part of his photographic work to the representation of people with various types of disabilities, in these images Raffaelli manages to capture the intimacy and complexity of his subjects, highlighting moments of everyday life in shots of great intensity.

This author is part of an Italian photographic tradition that includes masters such as Guido Guidi, Mario Giacomelli, or even foreign ones, such as Diane Arbus, Michael Schmidt, but with his own voice that emphasizes formal rigor and a meditative visual narration. His approach becomes a testimony of time and of the social and cultural transformations that shape the contemporary world.

With Immagini umane, Francesco Raffaelli takes us to a place where he questions the boundary between the artefact and the real, between the memory of the body and its reproduction. They are fragments torn from their original context that take on a new life in the photographer’s lens. Stolen and decontextualized, they become symbols of a trapped beauty that resists time, the act of theft, transforming into new relics. The exhibition invites us to reflect on this process, intrinsically linked to pain, loss of identity, solitude.