Piero Martinello is a 24 years old portrait photographer. He graduated from the Institute of Photography and Visual Arts in Padua. In 2006, whilst working for the Italian magazine Donna Moderna, Piero joined FABRICA, the Communication Research Centre of Benetton Group, with a project entitled “Bar Portraits”. At FABRICA Piero has worked extensively for Colors Magazine, Wanted Creativity and Internazionale, becoming the director of photography in Colors 76, “Teenagers”.
His work has been published in La Repubblica, The Herald, Le Monde, Il Corriere della Sera, La Stampa and La Tribune, and has had exhibitions in Luxembourg and Lisbon. Piero has also worked on various social awareness campaigns; a campaign for the situation in Darfur commissioned by the Canadian newspaper Walrus, two World Health Organization campaigns entitled “Stop Tubercolosis” and “Child Injury Prevention”, and a campaign for United Colors of Benetton.
He is currently working on a project called ‘The Waste land’.
+39 349 3687167 info@pieromartinello.com
Living and working in Paris and Milano.

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The Waste Land - Piero Martinello

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.