About this Work
About the Artist
Italian
b. 1983 Venice, ItalyRenato D’Agostin began his photography career in Venice in 2001. The atmosphere of city life fed his curiosity to capture life situations with the camera. In 2002, he began traveling through the capitals of Western Europe, chronicling his journey with photographs. After a period in Milan, he moved overseas to explore photography in New York. There he met photographer Ralph Gibson and later become his assistant.His works have been exhibited in several exhibitions in Europe, United States and Asia and published in numerous books. Some of his prints have become part of public collections such as The Library of Congress and The Phillips Collection in Washington DC, the International Center of Photography in New York, as well as LACMA in Los Angeles, the Center for Creative Photography in Arizona and the Maison Europeenne de la Photographie in Paris among others.Dislocating subjects from their realities, he depicts his perception of the space around him, the relationship between architecture and people, opening a new portal in the spectator’s imagination.
b. 1983 Venice, ItalyRenato D’Agostin began his photography career in Venice in 2001. The atmosphere of city life fed his curiosity to capture life situations with the camera. In 2002, he began traveling through the capitals of Western Europe, chronicling his journey with photographs. After a period in Milan, he moved overseas to explore photography in New York. There he met photographer Ralph Gibson and later become his assistant.His works have been exhibited in several exhibitions in Europe, United States and Asia and published in numerous books. Some of his prints have become part of public collections such as The Library of Congress and The Phillips Collection in Washington DC, the International Center of Photography in New York, as well as LACMA in Los Angeles, the Center for Creative Photography in Arizona and the Maison Europeenne de la Photographie in Paris among others.Dislocating subjects from their realities, he depicts his perception of the space around him, the relationship between architecture and people, opening a new portal in the spectator’s imagination.
