About

Massimo Cristaldi was born in Catania (Italy) in 1970.
His professional career started in 1994, when, after a degree in Geology, he began manging international research projects. Art is, nevertheless, the environment in which he grew up and Photography the way he can set his interior creative side free. The driving concern of his work is focused on traces that Man and time passage carve over Nature and Things, representing, in particular, effects and sings on what remains.

He has been recently awarded  at the International Photography Awards 2008 and 2009 at the B&W Spider Awards 2008, at the Photography Masters Cup 2008, at the Travel Photographers Of the Year 2008 and the the Prix de Photographie de Paris 2009.

Massimo is represented by Farmani Gallery in the USA, Samuel Frederic Photography in Belgium, Netherland and Luxemburg and Lensmodern in the UK.

Massimo Cristaldi lives between Catania and Rome.

Artist Statement

We live in a Time of accelerated changes. Technology revolution makes the World almost identical and, often, boring. Cities and places in the West too often resemble each other. My interest is focused on portraying this transitional moment, where the Past gradually becomes a stratigraphy for our Present,  fades away but still leaves evidences, in things, persons, social habits. I dedicate a particular interest to boundary lands in unstable balance between progress and leftover traces of a time gone.
In “Tempo e Immagine” * Rosario Vittorio Cristaldi writes: Image always coagulates a time, and in the very same moment, ratifies the definiteness of the instant whose catches the meaning. My interest for photography is strictly linked to this sentence. To coagulate a time, a moment, to transform my interior emotion in a physical object, unchangeable. To coagulate: a verb I like for its inplicit link to Life. And to its opposite.

Massimo Cristaldi, Marzo 2009
* (Treviso, 1992, Pagus editore)