Marco Simonelli — Photographic Artist
I have always had a camera in my hands.
From an early age, it became my natural way of observing and interpreting the world. However, my artistic research took a more conscious form in 2005, with the beginning of a photographic journey that immediately developed as a space for experimentation and the construction of visual languages.
The advent of digital technology marked a decisive turning point: not simply a tool, but a condition that allowed me to fully manage the entire creative process — from shooting to post-production — transforming each image into a conscious act, balanced between control and intuition.
My work unfolds between conceptual inquiry and perception, exploring the relationship between image, space, and viewer. I do not seek to represent reality, but to expand it, to alter its coordinates in order to open new possibilities of experience and interpretation.
A significant part of my path took place within a police force. This experience, deeply immersed in the concreteness of reality and its most extreme tensions, profoundly shaped my sensitivity, directing my gaze toward what often remains unseen: thresholds, fragilities, and the deeper structures of life. From the extreme tension of lived experience in service emerges my research into the “excess of the image,” as a space where the invisible takes form.
After concluding this professional experience, I was able to devote myself more fully to artistic research, focusing on photography as a privileged space for investigation and transformation.
Alongside my artistic practice, I have worked with private clients and companies, refining a project-driven approach grounded in rigor, precision, and visual coherence.
At the core of my practice lies the concept of the “excess of the image”: not as mere transcendence, but as a tension toward what exceeds the visible. A process that seeks to reveal deeper dimensions of matter, perception, and space.
Today, my work focuses on the balance between order and transformation, shaping visual experiences that generate sensory resonance within shared environments — including hotels, private residences, and corporate spaces — where the image becomes a presence, an atmosphere, and an active perceptual device.