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The apparent lightness and refinement of the images of Walter Niedermayr subtend a personal dialogue with nature. He has elaborated a discourse that deals, first and foremost, with the consistently imbalanced relationship between nature and human civilisation. In a continuously changing world, Niedermayr sees photography as a possibility to create fractures able to reveal the sequential decomposition of the image within a more complex vision. Niedermayr’s diptychs for "atlante italiano 007. Rischio paesaggio" insist on the romantic idea of a cosmos in which man is merely a guest, a minimal entity forever at the limit between concrete presence and paradoxical insignificance. The photographer sheds light not only on the fragility of mankind in the face of an implacable natural world, but also on his role as the author of the inexorable exploitation of the landscape, subjected to the interminable flows of mass tourism.