Artworks by Francesco Mussida

My work focuses mainly on the plant world, choosing a totally analog approach, using exclusively vintage cameras and following the methods of manual processing of film development and limited edition printing. I deeply love analog photography, its manual nature and having to be in the process totally. There are no shortcuts, and the darkroom is where technique and patience come together to bring my artistic vision to life. My works on plants reflect deep attention to the way nature expresses its language through forms, movements and propagations. For these works, like In-Difesa and Native series, I chose the form of the portrait as a method of all-encompassing observation towards light, subject and air. The mission behind this choice is to preserve a natural space between observer and observed subject, avoiding any kind of digital interpretation and always keeping involved natural variables such as light, time and emotions. Each portrait is made in the field with the precise intention of respecting environmental influences. No plants were cut down for my shots, and never will be. Since 2016 he has been teaching film development and analog printing techniques and runs a blog entirely dedicated to analog culture Stampaanalogica.