Renaissance man
La Mercante Di Drappi, 2017 from the 1406 series
Photography is a process of a collaboration. That may sound odd considering our romantic notion of the lone wanderer of the streets and landscapes, camera in hand, pointing his/her lens at the sights that inspire them. But look through any of those images and you can see where collaboration rears its head –it’s in the history. Music, literature, art and photography are not made in isolation. All these forms carry the seeds and influence of the countless artists and practitioners that have come before them. Collaboration spans time. It inspires culture to grow and evolve.
Take a good look through the work of Italian-born photographer Christian Tagliavini and you get a strong sense of what this means and how this works. Tagliavini, who is now based in Switzerland, happily wears his
