From Friday 2 October to Sunday 8 November, the Church of Sant’Antonio in Qualquonia will host the photography exhibition “Camera Obscura: Once Upon a Time, There Was Photography”, featuring around 70 works by the photographer Paolo Taddei. 
The opening, to be attended by local authorities and the artist, is scheduled for Friday 2 October at 12.00. The exhibition will be open from Tuesday to Sunday, with free admission.

The photographer Paolo Taddei, creator of the exhibition, practised his profession in Pisa until 2013. The exhibition brings together photographs taken between 1996 and 2002 using analogue cameras, offering a journey through the practice of photography based on the direct relationship between taking the shot, developing the negative and printing on paper. The works are categorised according to the camera used to create them: a Rolleiflex 3.5 Tessar for the portfolio ‘Agenzia Ippica, Pisa, 1997’; a Mamiya 645 Super for ‘Mendicanti, Milano, 1998’; and a Contax 645 for the reportage ‘Regina Pacis, San Foca, 2001’. For all the photographs on display, the artist personally oversaw both the development of the negatives and the darkroom printing on baryta paper. The works, presented in formats ranging from 30x40 to 50x70, thus highlight the value of analogue photography and its artisanal dimension, through unique prints produced directly by the artist.

The exhibition will be open from Tuesday to Friday from 3.30 pm to 7.30 pm, and on Saturdays and Sundays from 10.00 am to 12.30 pm and from 3.30 pm to 7.30 pm.

Free admission.