Your name
Gian Marco Sanna
Place of birth
Rome, Italy
Place where you live now
Viterbo, Italy
3 words to describe you
experimental,observer,imagination
Why do you take pictures?
Photography was initially an outlet, then over time it became a necessity, to the point that I was always thinking about it. It has been my means of escape to express myself and give light to my vision of the world. It is that thing that gives you the possibility of feeling in another dimension even 500 metres away from home.
I really enjoy photographing at night, especially with a flash. When I started taking pictures, I was fascinated by the possibility of giving light to a subject and being able to choose its intensity. Depending on how I directed the light, the shape of the subject changed and this fascinated me a lot.
At the end of the day, I believe that a photographer should never lose his curiosity for light.
Where do you get your inspiration?
In recent years, I have moved to the countryside and have learnt to appreciate nature, something we often tend to see little of in the city. This has allowed me to develop a different photographic approach and to re-evaluate things that I previously took for granted.
Above all, it has created new visual stimuli in me, which has helped me to work more on my photographic language.
Who are your influences?
My inspiration comes mainly from the ancient paintings found inside churches. Many times I try to identify myself or rather understand how the great artists of the past managed to produce such works with the few tools they had. I therefore like to observe these works of art often inside churches, such as the Last Judgement in Orvieto Cathedral by Luca Signorelli, which inspired me on a visual level as a setting and as an idea for my latest works. As far as photographers are concerned, I have always been very inspired by the work Minutes to Midnight by Trent Parke.
What determines the subject matter you choose?
I like to tell stories that I really care about and that are accessible to my routine, I believe that sometimes it is useless to go looking for stories that are far away from you and that don't even belong to you or that you don't really know, when around you, you are full of stories to tell.
What impact would you like your art to have?
I would like to make people think and create curiosity. I like to tell the issues without being too direct about the subject itself, going around it and making the viewer come to it slowly so as to provoke questions in him.
What artwork do you never get bored with?
Caravaggio - Giuditta e Oloferne
Is there anything you want to add?
I am working on a project about a girl's dream, disturbed by the frequent use of blue lights, which slowly turns into a nightmare due to the overuse of technology.
