My need to take pictures comes from observation, thinking things through and the urgency to understand. Cum-prehendere – “to understand” – in Latin means containing as well as including; understanding as well as grasping – a consideration that reorganizes and draws again every pre-existing idea. I study landscape because I need to understand how Man interacts with his environment, how he arranges the space he lives in. My preferred subjects are those local processes of landscape shaping that reveal a remarkable component of spontaneity, of artlessness, those that are not driven by technical knowledge or planning. So, on one side, Photography is the attempt to communicate those landscape phenomena which are, rather than “critical”, “exemplary” and on which I believe everyone should start taking conscience and asking questions about. But on the other side it teaches me how to look at the world without a camera.
Born in 1967, Giorgio Cecca is an aerospace engineer and a free-lance architectural and landscape photographer. He has attended workshops with Gabriele Basilico, Vincenzo Castella and Luca Andreoni.
The Occupied Territories project has been shortlisted by:
– Life Framer – Urban Life – honorary mention;
– European Photography Magazine n.98: Urbanics: The Contemporary City – shortlisted
– “Tracce dal Limes”, contest organized by the architecture on line magazine La Città Nuda
– Special Mention at Urbanautica Institute Annual Awards 2020
– Highly Recommended at European Architectural Photography Prize 2021: »The Urban in the Periphery«
Publications:
– Tracce dal Limes, exhibition catalogue 2015
– Life Framer Edition II Annual, 2015
– European Architectural Photography Prize – Architekturbild 2021, exhibition catalogue
Some photographs from this project are in collection of the Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt (Germany)
The G-Shaped project has been shortlisted by:
– Life Framer – A world of cultures – honorary mention;