Born in 1980. Graduated in Philosophy, Diego Dominici approaches photography driven by passion. The attention to detail, technical precision and compositional rigor allowed him to transform this passion into a profession in 2008, the year in which he began working with photography at national and international level. Currently, he lives and works in Turin, alongside his profession with continuous photographic research in the artistic field. Describing the works of Diego Dominici means immersing oneself in the human psyche, digging into the most hidden abysses of the unconscious. Aesthetics, the point of departure and arrival of Diego’s artistic research, becomes the way to dissect the obsessions, deviations and affective-cognitive incapacities of human everyday life: sometimes an “eyesore”, others a caress, his shots always conceal tales, deep narratives, which pierce the two-dimensionality of the shot to investigate the tangles of human interiority. The choice is up to the observer: to dwell on an aesthetic that is always meticulously and rigorously studied, or to deepen the investigation.

The Atman (essence) series is the result of a long aesthetic research, where the author used physical filters (glass, panels and various plastic materials) through which he photographed various subjects. In this latest series of photographs, the fabric constitutes a new frontier, through which the essence of the individual manifests itself, changing its shape, creating new surfaces that move between lights and shadows. This new skin, which becomes both an envelope and a surface, merges with the will of the subject to create new involuntary forms, making the meaning diverge from the signifier. Atman is a photographic project that talks about communication and relationship problems, distance and isolation, acceptance and the will to react.