Fabrizio Bergamo

Fabrizio Bergamo is a photographer. His career, which began in the mid-1970s, reflects a professional journey of extraordinary versatility and strictness. Over the years, he has ranged from interior design to still life, from architectural photography to portraiture to fashion, collaborating with the most prestigious Italian and international design brands – from B&B Italia to Kartell, from Driade to Missoni Home – and with the most authoritative publications in the sector, including Vogue, Elle Decor, Domus, Architektur & Wohnen, and Architectural Digest.

His attentive eye has documented contemporary lifestyles for decades, creating advertising campaigns, editorial services, and image projects that have defined the aesthetics of design and fashion. In recent years, Bergamo has undertaken a turning point: from the commercial sphere to pure artistic research. This transition does not represent an abandonment of photography, but rather its reinvention. Through the use of exclusive and experimental techniques – from the use of pinhole digital art to processes with instant development films – the artist has developed a practice that constantly questions the meaning of the image, its ability to narrate the invisible and to transcend the limits of digital.

His artistic journey has been articulated through various projects: Volti (Faces), a series of portraits that with their dramatic Caravaggesque lighting marked his debut in contemporary art; Perturbanti (The Uncanny), disturbing explorations of the boundary between animate and inanimate; I Santi (The Saints), a project on the sacred that uniquely combines pictorial and photographic art, created in collaboration with Davide Pizzigoni; and Fiori (Flowers), still lifes that capture the residual vital breath of things. Each project testifies to a constant search for meaning and reinterpretation of the photographic image.

Among the most significant exhibitions and shows of Bergamo’s artistic career, notable mentions include his participation in 2011 at the Venice Art Biennale and, in 2012, also for the Art Biennale, at the Italian Pavilion in Turin. Then the solo exhibitions, including I Santi, in collaboration with Davide Pizzigoni, at Galleria HQ in Milan; an evocative exhibition born from the Volti project at the Oratorio della Passione in the Basilica of Sant’Ambrogio in Milan; the exhibitions I Perturbanti and, subsequently, Fiori, also at Galleria HQ in Milan. The artist has also participated in various group exhibitions, including HQ Picks, HQ Incompleto, and DFA Gallery, all in Milan.