Paolo Gasparini. Field of Images

Paolo Gasparini is one of the photographers who has best portrayed the cultural tensions and contradictions of the South American continent. His images convey the harsh social reality faced by a region whose cultural authenticity is unquestionable, and where the past and local traditions parley with a clumsily imposed modernity. Gasparini creates an oeuvre with its very own visual language, a language that seems to express a criticism of consumer society while at the same time revealing a certain obsession with the way we are seduced by marketing and advertising.