Infrared African Wildlife by Paolo Ameli

Humanity is increasingly indifferent to the fate of nature on its planet. Man is no longer able to recognize the value of the beauty that surrounds him.

Paolo Ameli realizes a project of naturalistic images that draws inspiration from that invisible to the eyes revealed thanks to the infrared technique. His photographs are composed lines that cross the skies and climb fluidly into the contrast of nature, to dig deep and intimate emotions. Rarefied at first glance, they scratch the paper and the eyes. They dream of the moon with their feet firmly planted on earth. There is no space for the superfluous. The ice melts making the song of a soul attentive to what surrounds it sprout, aware of the sacredness of nature.

Always, with kindness and respect. Ameli reveals the nerves, the tendons, the majestic skeleton but above all the fluctuating veins of this land where landscapes and animals take on a new, more ethereal and abstract appearance. The technique is functional to the lucid vision of a perfect world where subtraction becomes wealth, giving value to the absolute line, catching motionless wingbeats. His rarefied landscapes grasp the essential with strength and love, overturning the natural world revealing the secret kept in a graphic minimalism.

In the hands of Ameli, infrared photography becomes a listening tool, a means of expression and artistic research that uses a spectrum of light imperceptible to the eye to reveal… “what is essential is invisible to the eye”.







Paolo Ameli
Paolo Ameli, was born in Genova, Italy. After completing his studies in architecture, he works as an art director for various advertising agencies in Genoa. He also works as a freelance photographer. Over the years he has made several short films that have won several national awards. He moved to Milan in 1997 where he began collaborating with Mercurio Cinematografica Production house as production assistant, producer and director. He has been a Freelance director since 1999. He is the author and director of several commercials and music promos. In 2002 he made the short film Rosso Fango which, among the various awards, won the David di Donatello in 2003, up to the semi-finalist selection at the 2004 Oscars in the Live Action Short Film section. As an amateur photographer he has always cultivated his passion for landscape and nature photography. In the past ten years he has photographed places around the world with an infrared converted camera.
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