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About
Offsights is a collection of black and white photography by Lucio Garofalo. It contains images from 1978 to the present and is intended to expand.
Nearly all images presented in Offsights are shot on film in various formats: 20x25 cm and 10x12 cm view camera, 6x7 cm reflex, 6x6 cm TLR, 6x4.5 cm reflex, and 35 mm reflex. All film images are developed and scanned by the author, who continues to use film as much as possible. While every format has a raison d'être, he finds the square of the Rolleiflex the most interesting, as its static quality and lack of interchangeable lenses mean that “the square” must be won by dynamic composition.
Bio
Lucio Garofalo (Milan, 1958) is a journalist specializing in the field of construction. Over a span of forty years he has been a contributor to professional trade magazines as well as a documentarian, using photography as an integral part of his work. Alongside his professional activity, he has never ceased the process of photographic inquiry.
Fiddling with his father's Rolleiflex at the age of ten, he developed a true passion for photography while growing up in Milan of the 60s, Italian capital of the medium in those days. Later, as a young professional he extended his reach across the Atlantic, settling in Boston for better part of the 80s, where he was a correspondent for a leading Italian architectural magazine while photographing new construction and historic architecture. During that time he held personal exhibits at the Boston Architectural Center (now part of the Boston Architectural College) and Boston City Hall. His photographs were acquired by the Canadian Center for Architecture in Montreal for its permanent collection.
Returning to Italy in the 90s, he continued a career in journalism, becoming managing editor of the leading Italian construction magazine, and communication consultant for construction companies and major equipment manufacturers. These opportunities have taken him around the world, documenting and filming countless infrastructure projects. Despite a busy professional schedule, he has continued working on his own black and white photography, which has remained what it has always been, a continual exploration of form and structure.