Ducale Palace

Photo by Mauro Millenotti Mauro Millenotti was born in 1973. He graduated in International Business Marketing at the University of Wales. In 2000 he attended a two year directing course at the National Academy of Cinema in Bologna. He has been photographer since 2007, and has developed an interest for projects focusing on the interaction between man and territory. In 2013 he was awarded the second prize ex-aequeo at the competition “Portfolio Italia – Gran Premio Epson”. His works have been exhibited in galleries and festivals in Italy and have been published in magazines and on websites. At the moment he is working on a long term project on Italian and European coastlines. He is co-founder of the Festival di Fotografia Contemporanea Diecixdieci. “I was looking for beauty and I found it”: the images of the building confirm this. It is an historic and architectural heritage that is intimidating for of its dimensions and enchanting for of its beauty, that is at times almost violent but also surprisingly delicate. “I wanted to capture the beauty in the rigorous harmony of the shapes, in the overlapping of real and imaginary spaces, of past and present”.