U.PHO.S. - Unidentified Photographic Subjects

Feeling the urgency of looking beyond everydays visual information and discover, through the use of photography, new realities, Mauro Fiorese has recorded places and situations on the edge between reality and imagination for over twenty years. His images deals, at the same time, with both presence and absence: the subject portrayed is real, but it’s always difficult and mysteriously hard to identify it. They are in fact objects far from our daily life or common objects that, once decontextualized, undergo a transfiguration suggesting us uneasy feelings. Fiorese in fact aspires to create the first official archive of Unidentified Photographed Subjects (U.Pho.S.). Parallel to his photographic work, the artist wanted to document this long-term project with a video-diary, edited in a unique, surreal mockumentary, where paradoxical situation are mixed with live breaking news and interviews.

All Images © Mauro Fiorese