NICCOLĂ’ BERRETTA

A book that explores Niccolò Berretta’s imagination from an oblique angle. A slip through the folds of society, via photographs of faces immersed in their contexts—and contexts that reveal the scenes of action. The images are punctuated by texts that screech across the pages with a harsh intimacy, not without leaving room for irony. Between the streets of metropolitan places and lesser-known corners, a visceral world takes shape in a visual narrative where contrast becomes beauty: I smelled the spring on the smoky wind.

About Niccolò Berretta

  • Every photograph by Niccolò Berretta is a clear, simple, and effective fragment that describes the geography and condition of the subjects with a raw, disarming technique.


    – Emanuele Mascioni (Publisher)

  • I had the honor of taking one of the last pictures of Shane with his mother. We drank all night at Phil Ryan’s pub.


    – Niccolò Berretta

  • Niccolò Berretta is an artist photographer whose practice begins with an attraction for the street…and is bound to the transversal habitat of those people living not on the margins, but in the cracks, the interstices of society, from the center to the outskirts.


    – Giuliana Benassi (Curator)