paride
nardotto
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Paride’s work unfolds where human presence meets the natural world, shaped by years of mountaineering, long ascents, and time spent moving through high-altitude landscapes of the Italian Alps.
Born in Italy in 1987, he encountered photography early, through his father’s hands. At the age of five, he first held a 35 mm camera, accompanying him on journeys where observation, patience, and respect for place were learned long before technique.
Specializing in landscape photography, Paride is drawn to vast, open terrains, thresholds where earth and sky converge. These are spaces to be inhabited as much as observed, landscapes that invite balance and reflection. Mountains and wilderness remain the backbone of his work, yet his gaze extends naturally toward people. Through documentary and reportage photography, he records human presence, daily rituals, and lived moments with the same attentiveness, emotional restraint, and sense of presence that define his landscapes.
Presented together, a selection of works by Paride and his father, Giovanni, reveals the convergence of two artistic voices. Father and son are united by a shared pursuit: images shaped by a strong visual identity and a quiet but profound human resonance, where place and presence remain inseparable.
Giovanni Nardotto was born in 1953 in Addis Ababa to Italian and Polish parents who had relocated to Africa during the Second World War. The first fourteen years of his life in Ethiopia left a lasting mark on his visual language, shaped by daily exposure to different cultures, ethnicities, and vast landscapes that trained his eye to observe with depth and sensitivity.
After returning to Europe, he spent nearly two decades working as a graphic designer in Northern Italy, developing a disciplined sense of composition and visual structure. In 2007, he was appointed Director of Photography for an Italian company specializing in reverse engineering and rapid prototyping applied to cultural heritage, where accuracy, documentation, and technical rigor became central to his practice.
Throughout his career, Giovanni has collaborated with European art institutes, museums, and archaeological organizations, contributing to projects dedicated to the preservation, restoration, and interpretation of artworks and cultural heritage of international importance.
Today, Giovanni remains an active photographer. Together with his wife, Sonia, he continues to travel widely, documenting cultures and places with a calm, attentive gaze, rooted in lived experience, long observation, and a deep respect for human heritage.
