PAOLO VENTURA
He has been called one of the most interesting story tellers in the art world today – using photography to carefully construct his narratives. Like all good narrators, Paolo Ventura was raised on stories. He recalls that his father, a children’s book author and illustrator, ‘was always inventing stories for me and my brothers’. His grandmother’s stories of life during the second world war had a great impact on his first work, War Souvenir and they continue to resonate with his more recent bodies of work including Winter Stories, The Automaton and Behind the Walls.
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