Alessandro Puccinelli (b. 1969, Italy) is an award-winning photographer who has dedicated his life to capturing the power and beauty of nature. His love for surfing, nurtured from a young age, developed into a font of inspiration. Today, he divides his time between Italy and Portugal, where he captures the full force of nature in his stunning aqueous shots. Influenced by Romantic painters and artists such as William Turner, he brings their love of nature into the 21st century, encapsulating not only the power but the elegance and stunning beauty to be found in this life-giving element. One can almost feel the tide's pull, the infinite cycle of the sea rising and crashing down in waves, spraying salt water into the air in his contemporary seascapes, drawing in the viewer with their intensity.
His long term photographic series, Mare, regarded by the artist as the cornerstone of his work, began in 2005. The series captures the sea in all its grandeur and contradictions, its powerful swells, storms, repetitions, shorelines, and the debris it gathers and returns.Mare explores the infinite wonder of the sea but also the symbolic use of nature for reflecting human experiences.
For Puccinelli, the sea is a place where intimacy, refuge, dramatic intensity and profound realization converge. While Mare remains Puccinelli's central series, other projects like Furore, acts as an extension or explorations of this fundamental theme, diving deeper into specific aspects of the ocean.
