Stefano Marchionini was born in Verbania in Italy, in 1985. He now lives in Marseille, France.
In 2014 he obtained a Master’s degree with honors at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. His work has been featured in gallery exhibitions and festivals in Paris, Marseille, Lisbon, Venice, Los Angeles, New York and has been published in magazines such as Dazed & Confused, Waterfall Magazine, Der Greif, Mouvement Magazine, Archivo Zine, Neon Magazine, Fantastic Man and Out Magazine.
The photographer often captures ambiguous and highly personal images through decontextualizations, including elements that connect to the emotive sphere.
About ‘I see around tombstones grey’ – words by ‘Stefano Marchionini’:
I see around me tombstones grey is not only about a physical space.
After having spent years far from my parents I understood that wherever they were it was their nearness that gave me the feeling of being at home. It could be in my hometown on the Lake Maggiore, that I left many years ago, or where my father used to work. As I started taking picture of them, of my family, I noticed that there was a different atmosphere compared to the feel my life away from them had. It is true that whenever I’d come to stay home for a few weeks I was forced to realize that their/our reality was becoming more dramatic every year: oldness, sickness, retirement and a general feel of inquietude. However, it is thanks to this that I know where I come from and where I want (or don’t want) to be. The title of the series is the first line of a poem by Emily Brontë and there is also another verse of it stuck in my mind: we would not leave our native home for any world beyond the tomb.
