Mauro Roberto Scalabroni grew up drawing. Art, he has said, was always important to him. So was nature. The two were never separate.
Born in Romania in 1989, Scalabroni was raised on the Adriatic coast of Italy. He walks the shoreline in the early morning hours, looking for light in its most transient states. He shoots what he finds. Then he works into each photograph by hand, applying pastel filters with the precision of a painter who knows exactly what he is after.
His practice is rooted in observation and personal touch. Every image is his own, from the moment of capture to the final result. The work does not announce itself. It holds a quality of light that most people walk past without noticing.
Scalabroni began sharing his images on social media almost by accident. The response was immediate. He has since built a practice that moves between photography and image-making, always with nature at its centre.
