« The ideas ruins evoke in me are grand. Everything comes to nothing, everything perishes, everything passes, only the world remains, only time endures. » Diderot
Photographer Thomas Jorion offers us with his “Veduta” series a dive into an Italy from another time. The series of photographs, taken in Italy from 2009 to 2020, presents forgotten places, withdrawn from the world, dusty theater of frozen time imbued with fallen magnificence.Palaces, gardens, masserias, summer resorts… the photographer traveled Italy from north to south for almost ten years to find these mysterious and silent places that no one cares about anymore. The grandeur and architectural splendor of these rich 18th and 19th century residences thus endure through the prism of the photographer’s gaze.
These photographs of forgotten palaces with a singular aesthetic between dilapidation and eternal beauty, echo the current of 18th century Italian painters walking through ancient ruins: Hubert Robert or even Piranesi.[…]
A book on this series was published by Editions de la Martinière in October 2020 : Veduta book
Veduta in Bookstores octobre 2020
Alba, Piémont, 2017
Ghepardi, Lombardie, 2016
Détail, Piémont, 2011
Cortigiano, Venise, 2017
Salita, Piémont, 2017
Porpora, Piémont, 2010
Detail, Toscane, 2011
Pappagallo, Toscane, 2018
Villa, Lombardie, 2018
Livello, Piémont, 2011
Portello, Lombardie, 2017
Ricordi del giovane, Emilie-Romagne, 2018
Line e diritto, Piémont, 2009
Odalisca, Toscane, 2013
Fortezza, Piemont, 2012
Palma, Piémont, 2010
Villa, Pouilles, 2018
Sfuriata, Toscane, 2019
Pellegrino, Piemont, 2017
L'anticamera, Piémont, 2009
Detail, Piémont, 2017
Erinni, Toscane, 2016
Serpentino, Lombardie, 2016
Libero dignus, Emilie-Romagne, 2018
Gonzaga, Piémont, 2017
Isolato, Piémont, 2018
Schiuma, Emilie-Romagne, 2019
Frastuca, Sicile, 2020
La scala rossa, Tessin, 2009
Detail, Lombardie, 2017
Vedetta, 2018
Velum, Emilie-Romagne, 2013
Gli angeli, Tessin, 2009
Detail, Toscane, 2011
Cortigiana, Sicile, 2020
L'arcangelo, Sicile, 2019
Fulmine, Frioul, 2018
Abbozzo, Toscane, 2013
Detail, Piémont, 2017
Sognare, Tessin, 2016
Veduta part 1 / Galerie Woerdehoff, 2019
ParisPhoto2019
Abbaye de Cluny
AD Magazine, Italie, Mars 2021
House Beautiful magazine Mai 2021, East Side apartment, NYC (credit House beautiful)