Verso Reverso 2023

Spanish-Argentine photographer based in Milan who with this book highlights a fundamental theme for him, which is that of women. Through his photography he shows the subtle balance of his feminine imaginary: the verse as the evident, the emptiness as its contraposition. Thus, the back and the neck, the back and the front, the light and the dark meet to give life to the magic of a rhythm.Patricio Reig stamps and prints his images on special papers from the Orient, which he cuts, folds, prints and fixes with various chemicals in addition to coffee. The result obtained is astonishing from the first experiments: the accidents of stains on the fluid material and the folds that turn into scars that distinguish each photograph. Consequently, each of the stories told.As he himself says "a portrait is not a single record of identity, but is the layering of many other elements". Therefore, a portrait image can also be segmented, decomposed and re-presented in many ways without losing its essence".