Satellite: Nordic Blue

 

Luca Berti’s captivating and timeless photo exhibition tells the story of the relationship between man and nature in the Nordic countries, including Estonia, through the beautiful analogue photographic technique called cyanotype. Berti is an Italian photographer based in Denmark and known as a master of slow photography. He travels around the Nordic countries on his bicycle, shooting with an analogue film camera and using only traditional darkroom techniques. The ‘blue’ exhibition presented here adds a new layer to the author’s work, as his works in this format have never been showcased. The exhibition will glimpse Nordic life through a novel and quintessentially Nordic blue lens.

Luca Berti (b 1978) is a freelance photographer from Florence who has lived and worked in Denmark for over 20 years. He graduated from the Italian Institute of Photography in Milan, worked as a fashion photographer from 2000 to 2012, and since 2012 has been dedicated to a documentary project focusing on rural life in the Nordic and Baltic countries in the 21st century. Luca Berti is a true master of labour-intensive and slow analogue photography. His photos look refreshingly timeless in the ephemeral digital age. His works have been on exhibitions in Denmark, Norway, Latvia, Finland, Italy, Germany and Estonia. Find out more at lucaberti.com

“My relationship with cyanotype is a direct consequence of my passion for 19th century photography and, in a more general perspective of the past, its forgotten values, feelings and moods in art and everyday life. With a large format camera and cyanotype as a technique to print the photos, I feel an imaginary, though intense, connection with the old masters I am inspired by and also with their world, which I am looking for in all my projects. In this way, my photo camera becomes my time machine.”