Photographer Paolo Pastorino is the Edge of Humanity Magazine contributor of this photo essay.  From the project ‘Blite’.  To see Paolo’s body of work, click on any photograph.

 

 

 

 

 

Blite examines the quiet conversation between blue and white along the coast, where light, sea and sky coalesce into a minimal, restful vocabulary. The series reduces seaside scenes to broad planes of color and generous negative space, favoring calm horizontals, spare vertical accents and occasional small details, a chair, a post, a rope that anchors the view without disturbing its stillness. Tonal subtleties and restrained contrast keep the palette cool and meditative, while soft textures suggest material presence without visual clutter.

Formal geometry plays a central role: lines, edges and subtle diagonals translate natural elements into a graphic grammar, so each frame reads as both photograph and study in composition. The absence of narrative detail invites projection; viewers are asked to supply weather, time and memory, turning each image into a personal, imagined landscape. Blite’s images aim for a contemplative pace, encouraging slow looking and inward quiet. Best experienced, large and quietly lit, the series seeks to offer a visual pause, a distilled shore where two colors shape calm and possibility.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I started taking photos on elementary school trips with an Agfamatic and 110 film, then moved on to my dad's Ferrania in high school, and finally to 135.

Dozens of slide carousels shot with Pentax LX and Minox captured my vacations in the '90s and 2000s. With the arrival of digital photography, I noticed after a while that I was trying not to include people in my landscapes and photos in general.

I began more or less consciously around 2014 to shoot "without". Without people, without crowds, without the usual representation of a place.

Now I shoot with a Nikon D750, a Nikon D7100 and a Fujifilm X100VI, with a lens park ranging from Nikon to Sigma, Tamron, and Tokina.

 

All images and text © Paolo Pastorino 

 

See also:

Liguria without

By Paolo Pastorino

 

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