Projects of Piero Martinello
“Colors” Teenagers
Portraits of stylish, cool, and sometimes drunken teenagers, shot in studio as well as at music festivals in Spain and Italy, for Colors Magazine.
Faces of Money
Portraits of Currency. A glimpse into the relations between history, economy, and national identities. We take paper money as granted as the cold, stylized faces of leaders and public figures on it. A closer look, however, reveals charming subtleties and intricate works of art. This project might become a book in the future.
The Waste Land
This project is a series of intimate portraits of young intoxicated people, photographed during or after parties,festivals, and raves. We are accustomed to hearing about contemporary nightlife culture and its consequences. The images that we are used to seeing are those of packed nightclubs, strobe lights, the unbridled pace, and thousands of heads and bodies caught in movement. But, beyond these clichés, who are these young people? The intention of this work is to achieve a new perspective on an issue that has been mentioned so much in the last 20 years. Each images reveals its subject in a psychologically different light. They are captured in a moment of euphoria and ecstasy as the music and drugs embrace the individual.The expressions; the eyes; the gestures, the hazy nearness, leaves endless room for stories, allowing the observer to communicate with the subject.
Fabrica portraits
Collection of portraits of people from Fabrica, the Benetton group communication research center, based in Treviso, Italy.
A life’s work
This series showcases traditional craftsmen from North Eastern Italy, a region that is among the wealthiest and most industrialised regions in Italy today. Life-worn faces, including those of a painter, a steel worker and a fisherman, reflect individual stories, as well as the plight of the traditional workman in an era of industrial automation.
Commercial
Commercial projects including Benetton campaign “Victims”, Colors magazine and Fabrica Exhibition poster.