The event was held on December 4, 2025 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM.

Session Description:

Step into the haunting beauty and layered meanings of urban landscapes with Nicola Bertellotti and Mathias Wasik. This session explores how places, built, abandoned, or in transition, can become powerful subjects of photographic expression. Nicola Bertellotti’s work captures the melancholy grandeur of forgotten architecture and decaying spaces. His images are meditations on time, memory, and the silent stories embedded in walls and ruins. Mathias Wasik presents a different angle on city environments, highlighting the geometries, patterns, and atmospheres that shape our urban experience. His photography invites viewers to slow down and reimagine familiar places through a fresh, cinematic lens.
Join us for a visual journey that blends aesthetics, history, and emotion, revealing how spaces speak, even when no one is there.

Nicola Bertellotti Bio:

Nicola Bertellotti is an Italian fine art photographer based in Pietrasanta. His work is dedicated to rediscovering the past glories of abandoned and forgotten places, blending history, decay, and beauty into evocative visual narratives. He photographs spaces where time has left its mark—ruins, deserted villas, and industrial relics—with a poetic sensibility and architectural awareness.
He has exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide, including solo shows like "Hic Sunt Dracones" (Naples), "The Great Beauty" (Estonia), and "Paradiso Perduto" (New Orleans). In 2021 he participated in the Brescia Photo Festival with "Sipario", exploring abandoned cultural sites. In 2022, he won the Trento Art Prize and the Arte/Cairo Editore Golden Plate; in 2023 he received the AIPAI photo contest first prize for a series on industrial archaeology. Bertellotti has published two photographic books—Fenomenologia della fine (2014) and In Absentia (2022)—and his works are included in public and private collections, as well as featuring in magazines such as Esquire, Elle Decor, and Arte.

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Mathias Wasik Bio:

Mathias Wasik is a documentary and street photographer based in New york. His work focuses on capturing raw, unfiltered moments of everyday life, often highlighting social and cultural narratives through powerful visual storytelling. With a keen eye for composition and emotion, Mathias explores themes of identity, community, and the human condition in urban and rural settings.

His photographs have been featured in international exhibitions and publications, including Street Photography Magazine and Feature Shoot. Mathias is also involved in workshops and projects aimed at fostering dialogue around documentary photography and its role in society.

Website: www.mathiaswasik.com