Giorgio Faedo (Vicenza, Italy, 1975) is a visual artist whose photographic journey began with a simple, poetic gesture: discovering a small camera inside a bag of potato chips.
Since then, improvisation and experimentation have become the beating heart of his practice, far removed from rigid structures or premeditated plans. His work is driven by intuition, curiosity, and the magic that emerges from the encounter between subject and space—a practice also inspired by his ground-level work with marginalized communities.
The darkroom, initially a technical space, transforms in Faedo’s work into a powerful metaphor. It resonates with multiple dimensions: the collective experience of cinema (shared memory, suspension from entrenched realities), the photographic development process, and other “dark rooms” in dialogue with these ideas— the intimacy and mystery of the bedroom, the Catholic confessional, the planetarium, the cave.
These liminal spaces become theatres of exchange, where the subject—often friends or acquaintances—does not pose but acts, interacts, moves. The photographic set becomes a performative space, dissolving the boundary between photographer and subject in a creative and vulnerable dialogue.
Through analog, digital, and filmic images, Faedo explores the constructed nature of photographic documentation, embracing fragmentation and proximity as tools for connection. He examines how “setting” influences the emotional resonance of visual narratives.
His close investigations of human forms reveal desiring exchanges, where identity, mortality, and vulnerabilityintertwine in elusive and deeply evocative compositions. His aesthetic leans toward magical realism, challenging gender norms and inviting viewers to confront the invisible forces that shape perception—of others and of the self.
Faedo’s works inhabit academic, public, and digital spaces, carrying an intimate and radical vision of the photographic.